Editing Dahab (section)

{{Distinguish|Dahab Island}}
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'''Dahab''' ({{langx|arz|دهب}}, {{IPA|arz|ˈdæhæb|IPA}}, "gold") is a small town on the southeast coast of the [[Sinai Peninsula]] in Egypt, approximately {{convert|80|km|mi|abbr=on}} northeast of [[Sharm el-Sheikh]].

Dahab can be divided into three major parts. Masbat, which includes the Bedouin village of Asalah, in the north; Mashraba, south of Masbat, and Medina in the southwest.<ref name="TA">{{citation|url=https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g297547-Dahab_South_Sinai_Red_Sea_and_Sinai-Vacations.html|title=Dahab - Red Sea|access-date=25 August 2023|website=TripAdvisor.com}}</ref>

Dahab is mentioned in [[Deuteronomy]] as {{lang|he|דִ֥י זָהָֽב}} (''dî zāhāḇ),'' and in the Septuagint translation as Καταχρύσεα. [[Wilhelm Gesenius|Gesenius]] exegetes as, ''“I have no doubt but that it is the same place as that now called Dehab on the western shore of the Ælanitic gulf, where there are many palms.”''<ref>{{Cite web |title=דִּי זָהָב |url=https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h1774/wlc/wlc/0-1/}}</ref>

Following the [[Six-Day War]] of 1967, Sinai was occupied by Israel and Dahab became known as Di-Zahav. The Sinai Peninsula was restored to Egyptian rule under the [[Egypt–Israel peace treaty]] in 1982.