Bible dictionaries

Sea of Jazer

What Bible dictionaries say about “Sea of Jazer”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Sea of Jazer - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(Jer. 48:32), a lake, now represented by some ponds in the high valley in which the Ammonite city of Jazer lies, the ruins of which are called Sar.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

(yam ya`zer): This is a scribal error (Jer 48:32), yam ("sea") being accidentally imported from the preceding clause.

See JAZER; SEA.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915