A region east of the Jordan. During the time Moses led, it was a region occupied by Sihon.
Num 21:30We have shot them down; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon, and we have laid waste as far as Nophah, which is near Medeba.”
Josh 13:8With the half-tribe of Manasseh, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.Josh 13:9Their territory extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, including the city in the middle of the gorge, and all the plain of Medeba as far as Dibon,
Josh 13:16Their territory extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, including the city in the middle of the gorge, and all the plain near Medeba;
1 Chr 19:7So they hired thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Maacah and his army, who came and encamped before Medeba. And the Ammonites gathered from all their cities and came out to fight.