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Kibroth-hattaavah

‘The Graves of Craving’ — the burial ground Numbers 11 (already on these pages) names for the people who died craving meat, a name built on a double pun the chapter itself spells out (qivrot/qavru, graves/they-buried; ta’avah/ha-mit’avvim, the craving/the ones-who-craved). This chapter names the man himself, so to speak, only in passing; Numbers 33:16 is where it is formally entered as one station among many in the master itinerary. ⚠ Its location is genuinely unrecovered — no archaeological find confirms any proposal, and the traditional candidate rests entirely on its position along the reconstructed route rather than on any surviving trace of the name.

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