Moladah

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mol´a-da, mṓ-lā´da (מולדה mōlādhāh, "birth"; Μωλαδά, Mōladá):

A city in the south of Judah which fell to Simeon (Joshua 15:21-26; Joshua 19:2). It has been identified with the modern el, Milh, 10 miles east of Beersheba. It is a place in the far south (Negebh) of Judah, toward Edom (Joshua 15:26), reckoned to Simeon (Joshua 19:2; 1 Chronicles 4:28). It was repopulated after the captivity (Nehemiah 11:26). It is mentioned always in close proximity to Beersheba. Moladah is probably identical with Malatha, a city in Idumea to which Agrippa at one time withdrew himself (Josephus, Ant., XVIII, vi, 2). The site of this latter city has by Robinson and others been considered to be the ruins and wells of Tell el-Milḥ, some 13 miles to the East of Beersheba and some 7 miles Southwest of Arad. The chief difficulty is the statement of Eusebius and Jerome that Malatha was “by Jattir,” i.e. ‛Attir; if this is correct the Tell el-Milḥ is impossible, as it is 10 miles from ‛Attir, and we have no light at all on the site.

See City Of Salt. For Tell el-Milch see PEF, III, 415-16, Sh XXV.