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Table of Contents HEBREW: 6857 tpu Ts@phath
NAVE: Zephath
EBD: Zephath
SMITH: ZEPHATH
ISBE: ZEPHATH

Zephath

In Bible versions:

Zephath: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

which beholds; that attends or that covers

a town of Simeon perhaps 10 km east of Beer-Sheba (SMM)

Google Maps: Zephath

(30° 52´, 34° 37´);
OpenBible: (Flickr/Panoramio) Zephath;

Hebrew

Strongs #06857: tpu Ts@phath

Zephath = "watch-tower"

1) a Canaanite city in Simeon renamed Hormah by the Israelites

6857 Tsphath tsef-ath'

from 6822; watch-tower; Tsephath, a place in Palestine: KJV -- Zephath.
see HEBREW for 06822

Zephath [nave]

ZEPHATH
A Canaanite city, Judg. 1:17.
See: Hormah.

Zephath [ebd]

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.

ZEPHATH [smith]

(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]

ZEPHATH [isbe]

ZEPHATH - ze'-fath.

See HORMAH.