A place name meaning 'meadow of acacias,' designating Israel's final encampment before crossing the Jordan into Canaan. Numbers 33:49 locates the camp 'from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.' This is the same location called simply Shittim elsewhere, where Israel committed idolatry with Moabite women and where Balaam's prophecies were delivered. The place represents both the threshold of promise and the site of serious moral failure.