Valley Of Zeboim
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Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
("hyenas".)
1. A ravine (E. of Michmash) toward which the border looked, by way of which one company of Philistine marauders went. Zeboim lay "toward the wilderness" (the uncultivated mountain sides between the central district of Benjamin and the Jordan valley). The path from Jericho to Mukhmas (Michmash) runs up a gorge called by an exactly equivalent name, Shuk Ed Dubba , "ravine of the hyena" ( 1 Samuel 13:18).
2. Ζeboim (without the Hebrew 'Αyin ( ע ) means "gazelles"; one of the four cities of the plain; destroyed with Sodom, Gomorrha, and Admah ( Genesis 10:19; Genesis 14:2; Deuteronomy 29:23; Hosea 11:8). Shemeber was its king.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [2]
Place apparently in the vicinity of Michmash. 1 Samuel 13:18; Nehemiah 11:34 .
