Secacah

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Sec'acah or Seca'cah. (Thicket). One of the six cities of Judah, which were situated in the Midbar, ("Wilderness" ), that is, the tract bordering on the Dead Sea.  Joshua 15:61. Its position is not known.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Secacah . A town mentioned (  Joshua 15:61 ) among the possessions of Judah ‘in the wilderness’ ( midbâr ). It was probably in the rocky district above the W. shore of the Dead Sea.

H. L. Willett.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City 'in the wilderness' of Judah.  Joshua 15:61 . Identified by some with ruins at es Sikkeh, 31 46' N, 35 17' E .

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

One of Judah's six cities in the midbar or wilderness bordering on the Dead Sea ( Joshua 15:61).

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:61

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:61

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

sḗ - kā´ka , sek´a - ka ( סככה , ṣekhākhāh  ; Codex Vaticanus Αίχιοζά , Aichiozá  ; Codex Alexandrinus Σοχοχά , Sochochá ): One of the six cities "in the wilderness of Judah" (  Joshua 15:61 ), that is in the uncultivated lands to the West of the Dead Sea, where a scanty pasturage is still obtained by wandering Bedouin tribes. There are many signs in this district of more settled habitation in ancient times, but the name Secacah is lost. Conder proposed Khirbet ed Diḳḳeh (also called Khirbet es Siḳḳeh ), "the ruin of the path," some 2 miles South of Bethany. Though an ancient site, it is too near the inhabited area; the name, too, is uncertain ( PEF , III, 111, Sh Xvii ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

[many Sec' acoh ] (Heb. Sekakah', סְכָכָה , Thicket; Sept. Σοχοχά v.r. Αἰοχιόζα; Vulg. Sechacha, Or Sachacha ), one of the six cities of Judah situated in the Midbar (" wilderness"), that is, the tract bordering ou the Dead Sea ( Joshua 15:61). It occurs in the list between Middin and han- Nibshan. It was not known to Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. ). From Sinjii, among the highlands of Ephraim, near Seilfin, Dr. Robinson saw a place called Sekakeh (Bib. Res. ii, 8l, note); but this locality is, of course, out of the question. The place possibly corresponds to the site of Kusr Altar, one of two ruined towers on Wady Khureitun (Robinson, Bib. Res. ii: 182).