Adadah

Adadah was a town in the far southern Negev included in the long catalog of Judah's tribal inheritance (Joshua 15:22). It appears only once in Scripture, in the list of border towns "in the south country, by the coast of Edom" alongside Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, Ziph, Telem, and Bealoth. The Septuagint reads "Arouel" here, suggesting some scribal confusion between Adadah and the better-known Aroer. The site has not been securely identified but lay somewhere on the southern frontier between Judah and the Edomite-Negev wilderness, possibly at Khirbet Ar'arah.