Mount Ebal
Mount Ebal is one of the two mountains near the city of Nablus in the West Bank, and forms the northern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated, the southern side being formed by Mount Gerizim.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 940 metres
- Description: mountain in the immediate vicinity of the city of Nablus in the West Bank
- Also known as: “‘Eibal”, “Har ‘Eival”, “Jabal ‘Aybal”, “Jabal ‘Ībāl”, “Jabal Ebal”, “Mount ‘Aybal”, “Mount ’Eibal”, and “Mount ‘Eival”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Gerizim and Mount Eival Alter.
Mount Gerizim
Peak
Photo: יאיר דב, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Gerizim is one of two mountains near the Palestinian city of Nablus and the biblical city of Shechem, located in the north of Palestine’s West Bank.
Mount Eival Alter
Archaeological site
The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal, also known as the Mount Ebal site, Mount Ebal's Altar, and Joshua's Altar, is an archeological site dated to the Iron Age I, located on Mount Ebal, West Bank.
Joseph’s Tomb
Synagogue
Photo: David Roberts (painter), Public domain.
Joseph's Tomb is a funerary monument located in Balata village at the eastern entrance to the valley that separates Mounts Gerizim and Ebal, 300 m northwest of Jacob's Well, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Asira ash-Shamaliya and Nablus.
Asira ash-Shamaliya
Town
Asira ash-Shamaliya is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate, located 3.5 kilometers north of Nablus in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of approximately 8,813 inhabitants in 2017.
Nablus
Photo: Uwe a, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Nablus is a large city within the Palestinian Territories, in the Central Highlands of the West Bank, some 63 km north of Jerusalem.
Al Ein Camp
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
'Ein Beit el Ma, also known as Camp No. 1, is a Palestinian refugee camp established in the northern West Bank in 1950, adjacent to the city of Nablus.
Mount Ebal
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.23357° or 32° 14′ 1″ northLongitude
35.27335° or 35° 16′ 24″ eastElevation
940 metres (3,084 feet)Open location code
8G4Q67MF+C8OpenStreetMap ID
node 3602728612OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Mount Ebal” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل عيبال”
- Arabic: “عيبال”
- Azerbaijani: “Ebal dağı”
- Basque: “Ebal mendia”
- Catalan: “Mont Ebal”
- Cebuano: “Jabal ‘Aybāl”
- Chinese: “以巴路山”
- Dutch: “Ebal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل عيبال”
- French: “Mont Ebal”
- French: “mont Ébal”
- French: “Mont Ébal”
- German: “Ebal”
- Hebrew: “ג’בל א-שמאלי”
- Hebrew: “ג’בל אסלאמיה”
- Hebrew: “הר הברית”
- Hebrew: “הר הקללה”
- Hebrew: “הר עיבל”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Ebal”
- Irish: “Sliabh Éabál”
- Italian: “Ebal”
- Italian: “monte Ebal”
- Japanese: “エバル山”
- Korean: “에발산”
- Malay: “Gunung Ebal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ebal”
- Persian: “کوه عیبال”
- Polish: “Góra Ebal”
- Portuguese: “Monte Ebal”
- Russian: “Айбаль”
- Russian: “Джабаль-Айбаль”
- Russian: “Хар-Эваль”
- Russian: “Хар-Эйваль”
- Russian: “Эваль”
- Russian: “Эйваль”
- Slovenian: “Ebal”
- Spanish: “Monte Ebal”
- Ukrainian: “Евал”
- Venetian: “Ebal”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Nablus - City Center and Old City.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include מוצב הר עיבל and תצפית מזבח יהושע.
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