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Bozrah @ enclosure; fortress.

(1.) The city of Jobab, one of the early Edomite kings kjv@Genesis:36:33). This place is mentioned by the prophets in later times kjv@Isaiah:34:6; kjv@Jeremiah:49:13; kjv@Amos:1:12; kjv@Micah:2:12). Its modern representative is el
- Busseireh. It lies in the mountain district of Petra, 20 miles to the south-east of the Dead Sea.

(2.) A Moabite city in the "plain country" kjv@Jeremiah:48:24), i.e., on the high level down on the east of the Dead Sea. It is probably the modern Buzrah.