Eder

Eder ("flock") was a southern Negev town in Judah's tribal inheritance, named in Joshua 15:21 as the first city in the long catalog of "the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward": "And the cities of the uttermost border... Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur." The town appears only in this single boundary list. The exact site is uncertain but lay in the far southern Negev between Beersheba and the Edomite frontier. The name should not be confused with the Migdal-eder ("tower of the flock") near Bethlehem named in Genesis 35:21.