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Zephath
Open directlyEaston's Bible Dictionary · 1897
Beacon; watch-tower, a Canaanite town; called also Hormah (q.v.), Judg. 1:17. It has been identified with the pass of es-Sufah, but with greater probability with S’beita.
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Smith's Bible Dictionary · 1863
(watch-tower), the earlier name, (Judges 1:17) of a Canaanite town, which after its capture and destruction was called by the Israelites Hormah. [Hormah]
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Hastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
ZE'PHATH (watch-tower), a city and tower in the mountains of the Amorites, near Kadesh, Judg 1:17; identified by Palmer and Drake with the ruins of a city called Sebaitah, in the midst of a fertile plain. It was the same as Hormah, which see.
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · 1869
which beholds; that attends or that covers
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
ZE'PHATH (watch-tower), a city and tower in the mountains of the Amorites, near Kadesh, Judg 1:17; identified by Palmer and Drake with the ruins of a city called Sebaitah, in the midst of a fertile plain. It was the same as Hormah, which see.