OBOTH, an encampment of the Hebrews in the wilderness. From Punon they went to Oboth, and from Oboth to Je-abarim, (Numb. xxi. 10. xxxiii. 43.) Ptolemy speaks of a city called Obotha, or Ebotha, in Arabia Petraea, which is the same as Oboth. Pliny and the geographer Stephanus mention it also. Stephanus makes it belong to the Nabathæans, and Pliny to the Helmodeans, a people of Arabia. It was at Oboth that they worshipped the god Obodos, which Tertullian joins with Dufares, another god or king of this country.