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Diblah

Holman Bible Dictionary

(dihb' lah) or DIBLATH (dihb' lath) Place name with variant manuscript spellings and English transliterations in Ezekiel 6:14 . The Hebrew term many mean, “cake of figs.” Ezekiel used the term to describe the northern border of Israel as joined with the southern wilderness to describe all the territory of Israel which faced judgment—“from the desert to Diblah” (NIV). With slight manuscript support from the Latin Vulgate, many Bible students read “Riblah” supposing that in the earliest history of the text tradition a copyist made the simple mistake of changing a Hebrew “r” to a Hebrew “d,” the two letters being easily confused. See Riblah .