The Arabic name for the site on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea where ruins (= "Khirbet") and nearby caves yielded evidence of Jewish habitation and use.

Northern Dead Sea desert plain, part of Jordan (1949- 1967); region of the eleven caves yielding Hebrew biblical, sectarian, and literary scrolls. It is the habitation site where excavations have uncovered a complex of communal structures and generated numerous artifacts; the site was founded in the second century B.C.E. and abandoned about the time of the Roman offensive of 68 C.E. when the site was destroyed.

A settlement among the cliffs at the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. The settlement is associated with the library called the Dead Sea Scrolls found in neighboring caves.

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