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 SIIAVEH. country between Tabor and the sea of Tiberias (Onomast. s. v.) But as the name is here intro- duced in connection with Lebanon and Carmel, — Basiian beins also introduced, — and as no other notice of a Galilaean Sharon is to be met with, it seems more reasonable to refer the notice in Isaiah to the plain of Sharon on the west coast. 3. There was certainly another Sharon beyond Jor- dan, apparently near the region of Gilead, for the chil- dren of Abihail, of the tribe of Gad, are said to have " dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon" (1 Chron. v. 16); and it is possilile that '' the herds that fed in Sharon," under charge of David's chief herdsman, Shitrai the Sliaronite, may have pastured in this trans-Jordanic district, not in the plain of the Mediterranean. Eeland indeed maintains that the mention of the suburbs of Sharon in connection with the Gadites, is no proof of the existence of a trans-Jordanic Sharon, fur that, as the tribe of Gad was specially addicted to pastoral pursuits, they may have pastured their flocks in the suburbs of the towns of other and dis- tant tribes. But this hypothesis seems much more forced than the very natural theory of a second Sharon in the tribe of Gad properly so called. (Palaes/ina, pp. 370, 371, 988.) [G. W.] SHAVKH (LXX. Vat. ■^ KoiAas tov 2agv, Alex, rj 2avT/). "The valley of Siiaveh, which is the king's dale," where Melchizedek met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings. (Gen. xiv. 17.) The learned aie not agreed concerning the city of Melchi- zedek. They who regard his Salem as identical with Jerusalem, naturally identify " the king's dale," equi- valent to " the valley of Shaveh," with '" the king's dale " where Absalom erected his monument (2 Sam. xviii. 18), and place it in the vicinity of " the king's gardens," in the valley of the Kedron, where tradition piiint.s out "Absalom's hand'' or place. [Jerusalem, Vol. II. p. 17, a. and p. 23, b.] [G. W.] SHAVEH KIKJATHAIM (translated by the LXX. 2av^ r] ttoAis), the original seat of that very anc ient people the Emims, where they were smitten by Chedoriaomer, king of Elam. {Gen. xiv. .5.) It no doubt passed with the other possessions of the Emims to the Moabites (^Deut. ii. 9 — 1 1), and is pro- b.ibly identical with the Kiriathaim (LXX. Kapia- dalix) of Jeremiah (xlviii. 23) and Ezekiel (xxy. 9). [G. W.] SHEBA. [Sabaea.] SHECHEM. [Neapolis II.] SHILOH. [Silo.] SHii'TlM (LXX. 2aTTeiV al. SottiV), the last station of the Israelites before crossing the Jordan, described to be by Jordan in the plains of Moab. Abel-shittim was at one extremity of their vast en- campment, as Beth-Jesimoth was at the other. {Xumb. XXV. 1, xxxiii. 49.) It was from thence that Joshua sent the spies to reconnoitre Jericho (Josh. ii. 1), and from thence that they marched to their miraculous passage of the Jordan (iii. 1). In Micah (vi. 5) it is mentioned in connection with Gilgal, being the last encampment on the east of Jordan, as Gilgal was the first on the west. Here the LXX. render airb raiu irxoiVa);' 'iais tov ToA- yd. [G. W.] SHUNEM (LXX. ^.w/xdu-. Eth. Soj^oi'ittjs, Soj- fjiav'tTis), a village of Palestine celebrated as the birthplace of Abishag (1 Kings, i. 3), and for the miracle of Elisha. (2 Kings, iv.) It was situated In Issachar (Josh. xix. 18; LXX. 'Sovvd/j.), near Gilboa, to tlie north; for when Saul and the Is- SIBAE. 973 raelites were encamped in Gilboa, the Philistines pitched in Shunem, so that he had to pass through their lines to come to Endor. (1 Sam. xxviii. 4.) Eusebius mentions a village named Sanim, in the bor- ders of Sebaste, in the district of Acrabaltene, which cannot be identical with this. But the Subem (2ou- §7)/i) of the same author, which he places v. M. P. south of Mount Tabor, corresponds very well with the site of the modern village of Solum, which still marks the site of ancient Shunem. It is a miserable village, situated above the plain of Esdraelon. on the road between Jenhi and Nazareth, about la- bour north of Zerin, ancient Jezreel, on the steep slope of the western spur of Little Hermon (Ed- Duhy). [G. W.] SHUR (2oi;p, LXX.), a place repeatedly mentioned to describe the western extremity of the borders of the posterity of Ishmael {Gen. xsv. 18). of the Amalekites only (1 Sam. xv. 7), of the Ges'iurites, Gezrites, and Amalekites (xxvii. 8), in all which passages it is placed " over against," " before." and on the way to Egypt. Hagar's well, afterwards called Beer-lahai-roi, between Kadesh and Bered, was " in the way to Shur." (Gen. xvi. 7, 14.) The name is still found in the south of Palestine. '• iHoilahki (= Beer-lahai-roi) lies on the great road from Beersheba to Shur, or Jebel-es-Sui; which is its present name, — a grand chain of mountains running north and south, a little east of the longi- tude of Suez, lying, as Shur did, before Egypt. (Gen. xvi. 7.) It lies at the south-west ex- tremity of the plain of Paran, as Kadesh does at its utmost northeast extremity. (Rowlands, in Williams's Holy City, vol. i. appendix No. 1. pp. 465, 466.) [G. W.] SHUSHAN. [SusA.] SIAGUL (2ia7oi;A, Ptol. iv. 3. § 9, (the most easterly town of Zeugitana, only 3 miles from the coast, and to which Putput served as a harbour. Shaw (Travels, ch. 2) identifies it with .some ruins at the village of Kassir-Asseite, from two inscrip- tions which he found there, with the words Civ. Siagitana; but which he must have read incorrectly, since the town would have been called Siagnlitana. According to Maffei (Mus. Veron. p. 457. 2) there is also an inscription with the words Civ. Siagitana near Turuz in Africa; which Orelli (i. p. 334) re- fers either to Sigus inNumidia or to Sigu in Mauri- tania Caesariensis. [T. H. I).] SIANTICUM. [Santicum.] SIARUM, a town of Hispania Baetica, SE. of Hispalis. Now Saracatin, in the territory of Ulrera. (Plin. iii. 1. s. 3; Gruter, Inscr. p. 803: Florez, Med. ii. p. 571, iii. p. 117, Esp. Sagr. ix. p. 112, &c.) [T. H. D.] SIATA, an island on the Gallic coast, which is mentioned in the Maritime Itin. after Vindilis, or Belle Isle. D'Anville conjectures Siata to be the Isle de Ilouat. which is off' the coast of the depart- ment of Murbihan, and between Belle Isle and the mainland. [G. L.] SIATUTANDA (2iaTouTar5a), is mentioned by Ptolemy (ii. H- § 27) as a town of Germany; but had probably no existence at all, the geographer imagining that in the words of Tacitus (Ann. iv. 73), "ad sua tutanda digressis rebellibus" the name of some town was contained. Notwithstanding this evident origin of the name, some modern geographers still }iersist in assuming a town Si.itutanda. [L.S.] SPBAE (2/§ai, Arrian, hid. c. 5; Diod. xvii. 96; Strab. XV. p. 688), a nation of the runjdb. below