ADAM, CITY OF (אָדָ֤ם, red). A city in the Jordan Valley where the second largest river of Transjordania, the Jabbok, empties into the Jordan River. Here the Jordan River was dammed, prob. by the collapse of the fortyfoot high banks along this narrow stretch of the Jordan, allowing Israel to pass over dryshod sixteen m. S of Adam (Josh 3:9-17). The name is found in Pharaoh Shishak’s inscr. describing his invasion of Pal. in the fifth year of Rehoboam the son of Solomon and preserved in the Amon temple at Karnak. The modern name is Tell ed-Damiyeh.

Bibliography B. Mazar, “The Campaign of Pharaoh Sheshonk to Palestine,” Vet Test Supplement IV (1957), 57-66.