Arab

Arab was a small town in the hill country district of Judah, named in Joshua 15:52 among the nine cities of the second hill-country group: "Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean, And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah, And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and Zior." The town appears only in this single boundary list and is identified by some scholars with Khirbet er-Rabiyeh in the highlands south of Hebron near the Judean-Negev frontier. The name should not be confused with the Arab/Arabia of the desert peoples to the east — this Arab was a settled Judean hill-country town within the borders of the tribal inheritance.