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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ziph:

(battlement) the name of two towns in Judah.

(1.) In the south, named between Ithnan and Telem (Joshua 15:24). It does not appear again in the history, nor has any trace of has been met with.

(2.) In the highland district, named between Carmel and Juttah (Joshua 15:55). The place is immortalized by its connection with David (1 Samuel 23:14-15; 23:24; 26:2). These passages show that at that time it had near it a wilderness (i.e., a waste pasture‐ground) and a wood. The latter has disappeared but the former remains. The name of Zif, found about three miles south of Hebron, attached to a rounded hill of some 100 feet in height, which is called Tell Zif.

(3.) Son of Jehaleleel (1 Chronicles 4:16).

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