In Genesis 36, Dinhabah was an Edomite city, the capital of King Bela ben Beor. The name may mean "robbers' den". Dinhabah may have been located on the site of modern Dibdiba, a little northeast of Petra. Genesis (Greek: ΓÎνεσις, having the meanings of birth, creation, cause, beginning, source and origin) is the first book of the Torah (five books of Moses) and hence the first book of the Tanakh, part of the Hebrew Bible; it is also the first book of the Christian Old Testament. ... Edom (אֱדוֹם, Standard Hebrew Edom, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĔḏôm) sounds like the Biblical Hebrew word for red and is a vividly apposite designation for the red sandstones of Edom. ... In the chronology of Edomite kings in Genesis 36, Bela ben Beor is the first of the apparently elective kings. ... The Treasury at Petra Petra (from petrus, rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, al-BitrÄ) is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the great valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. ...
1Ch 1:43 — Now these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before [any] king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah.
And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah.
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