Hor-Hagidgad

Hor-hagidgad is a wilderness encampment between Bene-jaakan and Jotbathah in Israel's journey from Egypt, recorded in the itinerary of Numbers 33 and probably the same site that Deuteronomy calls Gudgodah.

In the Numbers Itinerary

The Numbers 33 stage-list places it as one fixed point in the wilderness chain: "And they journeyed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped in Hor-haggidgad. And they journeyed from Hor-haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah" (Num 33:32-33). The UPDV spells the name with a doubled g — Hor-haggidgad — and the station sits between Bene-jaakan on one side and Jotbathah on the other.

The Gudgodah Parallel

Deuteronomy's compressed travelogue gives the variant name: "From there they journeyed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water" (Deut 10:7). The shared next-stop — Jotbathah — and the descriptive note about its brooks of water identify Gudgodah with the Numbers station. The two names preserve the same wilderness encampment under slightly different forms.