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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

Bible -- Geography; Names in the Bible; Names, Geographical

|_Sûmia_ (?)*  |15 |A town on the East
                | 19; Is. xvi. |              |   | of Jordan, also
                | 8, 9; Jer.   |              |   | called Shibmah (Num.
                | xlviii. 32   |              |   | xxxii. 38) and Shebam
                |              |              |   | (Num. xxxii. 3).
                |              |              |   | Very probably the
                |              |              |   | important site Sûmia,
                |              |              |   | 2½ miles west of
                |              |              |   | Heshbon. ‘Hardly 500
                |              |              |   | paces from Heshbon’
                |              |              |   | (Onomasticon). See
                |              |              |   | _Quarterly Statement_,
                |              |              |   | p. 9, 1882.--Conder’s
                |              |              |   | _Heth and Moab_.
                |              |              |   |
=SIBRAIM=       |Ezek. xlvii.  |_Not          |-- |Mentioned as being
                | 16           | identified_  |   | between Berothah and
                |              |              |   | Hazar-hatticon, and
                |              |              |   | as lying between the
                |              |              |   | boundary of Damascus,
                |              |              |   | and that of Hamath.
                |              |              |   |
=SICHEM= (R.V.  |Gen. xii. 6   |              |-- |Shechem, which see.
 =SHECHEM=)     |              |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=SICYON=        |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Vasilika_    |-- |A city in the Gulf of
                |              |              |   | Corinth.
                |              |              |   |
=SIDE=          |1 Macc. xv. 23|              |-- |In Pamphylia, on the
                |              |              |   | sea coast east of
                |              |              |   | Adalia.
                |              |              |   |
=SIDDIM=, Vale  |Gen. xiv. 3,  |              |-- |The Jordan Valley and
 of             | 8, 10        |              |   | Dead Sea.
                |              |              |   |
=SIDON=,        |Gen. x. 15,   |_Saida_       | 2 |The present town Saida
 =ZIDON=        | 19; 2 Esd.   |              |   | on the coast between
 (R.V. =ZIDON=) | i. 11;       |              |   | Beirut and Tyre. _See_
                | Judith ii.   |              |   | Zidon.
                | 28; 1 Macc.  |              |   |
                | v. 15        |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=SIHOR=         |Josh. xiii.   |              |-- |_See_ Shihor.
                | 3; Jer. ii.  |              |   |
                | 18; Is.      |              |   |
                | xxiii. 3     |              |   |

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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

Bible -- Geography; Names in the Bible; Names, Geographical

|_Sûmia_ (?)*  |15 |A town on the East
                | 19; Is. xvi. |              |   | of Jordan, also
                | 8, 9; Jer.   |              |   | called Shibmah (Num.
                | xlviii. 32   |              |   | xxxii. 38) and Shebam
                |              |              |   | (Num. xxxii. 3).
                |              |              |   | Very probably the
                |              |              |   | important site Sûmia,
                |              |              |   | 2½ miles west of
                |              |              |   | Heshbon. ‘Hardly 500
                |              |              |   | paces from Heshbon’
                |              |              |   | (Onomasticon). See
                |              |              |   | _Quarterly Statement_,
                |              |              |   | p. 9, 1882.--Conder’s
                |              |              |   | _Heth and Moab_.
                |              |              |   |
=SIBRAIM=       |Ezek. xlvii.  |_Not          |-- |Mentioned as being
                | 16           | identified_  |   | between Berothah and
                |              |              |   | Hazar-hatticon, and
                |              |              |   | as lying between the
                |              |              |   | boundary of Damascus,
                |              |              |   | and that of Hamath.
                |              |              |   |
=SICHEM= (R.V.  |Gen. xii. 6   |              |-- |Shechem, which see.
 =SHECHEM=)     |              |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=SICYON=        |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Vasilika_    |-- |A city in the Gulf of
                |              |              |   | Corinth.
                |              |              |   |
=SIDE=          |1 Macc. xv. 23|              |-- |In Pamphylia, on the
                |              |              |   | sea coast east of
                |              |              |   | Adalia.
                |              |              |   |
=SIDDIM=, Vale  |Gen. xiv. 3,  |              |-- |The Jordan Valley and
 of             | 8, 10        |              |   | Dead Sea.
                |              |              |   |
=SIDON=,        |Gen. x. 15,   |_Saida_       | 2 |The present town Saida
 =ZIDON=        | 19; 2 Esd.   |              |   | on the coast between
 (R.V. =ZIDON=) | i. 11;       |              |   | Beirut and Tyre. _See_
                | Judith ii.   |              |   | Zidon.
                | 28; 1 Macc.  |              |   |
                | v. 15        |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=SIHOR=         |Josh. xiii.   |              |-- |_See_ Shihor.
                | 3; Jer. ii.  |              |   |
                | 18; Is.      |              |   |
                | xxiii. 3     |              |   |

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