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Zeboim

Meaning: gazelles or roes

This was the name of 3 biblical places.

1. Zeboim, one of the “five cities of the plain” of Sodom, generally coupled with Admah (Genesis 10:19; 14:2; Deuteronomy 29:23; Hos. 11:8)

   It had a king of its own (Shemeber), and was therefore a place of some importance. It was destroyed along with the other cities of the plain.

2. Zeboim, a valley or rugged glen somewhere near Gibeah in Benjamin (1 Samuel 13:18)

   It was probably the ravine now bearing the name Wady Shakh-ed-Dub'a, or “ravine of the hyena,” north of Jericho.

3. Zeboim, a place mentioned only in Neh. 11:34, inhabited by the Benjamites after the Captivity