| 1 Macc. iii. | | | | 10; v. 66; | | | | x. 30, 38; | | | | xi. 28, 34; | | | | 2 Macc. xv. 1| | | | | | | =SAMOS= |1 Macc. xv. |_Samos_ |-- |An island near Ephesus, | 23; Acts xx. | | | off the west coast of | 15 | | | Asia Minor. | | | | =SAMPSAMES= |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Samsûn_ (?) |-- |Thought to be Samsûn, | | | | on the coast of the | | | | Black Sea, between | | | | Sinope and Trebizond. | | | | =SANSANNAH= |Josh. xv. 31 |_Not |-- |Somewhere in the south | | identified_ | | of Judah. Comparing | | | | the parallel lists | | | | of Josh. xv. 31 | | | | with Josh. xix. 5, | | | | and 1 Chr. iv. 31. | | | | Hazar-susim or Susah | | | | takes the place of | | | | Sansannah. Simsim, | | | | near Gaza, has been | | | | proposed. | | | | =SAPHIR= (R.V. |Micah i. 11 |_es Sûâfîr_ |13 |Described by Eusebius =SHAPHIR=) | | | | and Jerome as being | | | | ‘in the mountain | | | | district between | | | | Eleutheropolis and | | | | Ascalon.’ Probably one | | | | of the three villages | | | | Suâfir, near Ashdod. | | | | (_Mem._ II. 413; Sh. | | | | XVI.) | | | | =SARID= |Josh. xix. |_Tell Shadûd_ |10 |A place mentioned | 10, 12 | (?)* | | on the boundary of | | | | Zebulon. The Syriac | | | | version reads ‘Asdod,’ | | | | and the LXX Seddouk. | | | | Probably ‘Tell