Shen

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SHEN (‘the tooth or crag’). A well-known place ‘the Shen ,’ named with Mizpah to indicate the position of the stone which was set up by Samuel to commemorate the defeat of the Philistines (  1 Samuel 7:12 ). The site is unknown.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

 1 Samuel 7:12. Samuel set up the memorial of the Lord's deliverance from the Philistines, the stone Ebenezer, between Mizpah and Shen, i.e. the teeth, a projecting point of rock (compare  1 Samuel 14:4-5 margin).

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Shen. (Tooth). A place mentioned only in  1 Samuel 7:12. Nothing is known of it.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Place near to which Samuel erected a stone and called it EBENEZER. 1 Samuel 7:12 .

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

A place near Mizpah. The name means a rock or stone. See Ebenezer

Holman Bible Dictionary

 1 Samuel 7:12

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 1 Samuel 7:12

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. with the art., hash-Shen, הִשֵּׁ , The Tooth Sept. Ἡ Παλαι ¡ Α Vulg. Sen ) , a place mentioned only in Samuel 7:12, defining the spot at which Samuel set up the stone Ebenezer to commemorate the rout of the Philistines. The pursuit had extended to "below Bethcar," and the stone was erected "between the Mizpah and between the Shen." The Targum has Shinna. The Peshito-Syriac and Arabic versions render both Bethcar and Shen by Beit- Jasan, evidently following the Sept., which appears to have read ישׁ Yashan, i.e. old. The name indicates not a village, but merely a sharp rock or conspicuous crag in the vicinity, like Seneh ( 1 Samuel 14:4). (See Ebenezer).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

shen ( ההשׁן , ha - shēn , "the tooth" or "peak"; τῆς παλαιᾶς , tḗs palaiás ): A place named only in   1 Samuel 7:12 to indicate the position of the stone set up by Samuel in connection with the victory over the Philistines, "between Mizpah and Shen." The Septuagint evidently reads yāshān , "old." Probably we should here read yeshānāh , as in  2 Chronicles 13:19 (OHL, under the word). Then it may be represented by ‛Ain Sı̄nia , to the North of Beitı̄n .