Siphmoth

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SIPHMOTH . One of the places to which a portion of the spoil of the Amalekites was sent after David’s return to Ziklag ( 1 Samuel 30:28 ). The site has not been recovered.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Siph'moth. (fruitful). One of the places, in the south of Judah, which David frequented, during his freebooting life. 1 Samuel 30:28.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City in the south of Judah, to the elders of which David sent some of the spoil he had taken from the Amalekites. 1 Samuel 30:28 . Not identified.

Holman Bible Dictionary

1 Samuel 30:281 Chronicles 27:27Shiphmite

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

One of David's haunts in southern Judah, to which he sent of the Amalekite spoil (1 Samuel 30:28).

Easton's Bible Dictionary

1 Samuel 30:28

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Siphmoth', שַׂפַמוֹת , fruitful [Furst]; Sept. Σαφεί v.r. Σαφαμώς; Vulg. Sephamoth), one of the places in the south of Judah which David frequented during his freebooting life, and to his friends in which he sent a portion of the spoil taken from the Anmalekites (1 Samuel 30:28). It is not named by Eusebius or Jerome. It is perhaps the present ruined site Kasi es-Sir in a wady of the same name not far southeast of Arair, or Aroer (Palmer, Desert of the Exodus, p. 341).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

sif´moth , sif´mōth ( שׂפמות , siphmōth (Ginsburg), שׁפמות , shiphămōth (Baer); Σαφεί , Sapheı́ ): One of the cities to which David sent presents from Ziklag ( 1 Samuel 30:28 ). It occurs between Aroer and Eshtemoa, so it must have been somewhere in Southern Judah. The site has not been recovered. Zabdi the Shiphmite (1 Chronicles 27:27 ) may quite probably have been a native of this place.