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SOWING In addition to the common reference to this agricultural act (see AGRICULTURE, SEASONS [OF THE YEAR]), sowing is used figuratively of the dispersion of the...
SIDON Ancient Canaanite city (Gen. 10:15, 19), on the coast, about 35 km north of Tyre. In the 15th century B.C. Sidon was subject to Egypt....
SIDIM Valley full of bitumen pits, in the Dead Sea region. Chedorlaomer defeated the king of Sodom and his allies in this place (Gen. 14: 3,...
SYCAMORE (Heb. “shikmah”; Gr. “sykomoros”, “sykomorea”). This tree, of the genus of fig trees, was abundant in the plain of Judea (1 Kings 10:27; 1 Chron....
ZIKLAG City in the extreme south of Judah (Jos. 15:31), assigned to the tribe of Simeon (Jos. 19:5; 1 Chron. 4:30). In Saul’s time, Ziklag belonged...
ASSASSINS Group of irreducible Jewish fanatics who did not hesitate to murder treacherously, mixed in the crowd, with short daggers (“sicae”). Four thousand of them were...
SICAR City of Samaria, near the land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph, not far from Jacob’s well (John 4:5; cf. Gen. 48:22). Ancient commentators...
SIBRAIM Place that Ezekiel places on the northern border of Canaan (Ez. 47:16). A possible identification: Shomeriyeh, east of Lake Homs.
SIBMA “freshness”. City assigned to Reuben (Num. 32:38; Josh. 13:19); immediately taken again by the Moabites. The vineyards of Sibma were famous (Is. 16:89; Jer. 48:32)....
SIBA Servant or slave of Saul. He was delivered (Ant. 7:5, 5), and became the father of a large family, his having his own servants (2...
