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Ziph
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Ziph, a flowing. 1. A city in the south of Judah. Joshua 15:24. 2. A town in the highlands of Judah, Joshua 15:55; fortified by Rehoboam. 2 Chronicles 11:8. When pursued by Saul, David hid himself "in the wilderness of Ziph." 1 Samuel 23:14; 1 Samuel 23:16; 1 Samuel 23:24; 1 Samuel 26:2. The site is Tell es Zîf, about four miles southeast of Hebron, on the road to Engedi. Tristram says: "How far the forest of Ziph," see 1 Samuel 23:14-15, "extended it is not easy to say, but there are traces of it in an occasional tree, and there seems no reason, from the nature of the soil, why the woods may not have stretched nearly to the barren, sandy marl which overlies the limestone for a few miles west of the Dead Sea." 3. A descendant of Judah. 1 Chronicles 4:16.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Ziph'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/z/ziph.html. 1893.
