- SHIGGAION from the verb shagah, “to reel about through drink,” occurs
in the title of Psalm 7. The plural form, shigionoth, is found in Habakkuk
3:1. The word denotes a lyrical poem composed under strong mental
emotion; a song of impassioned imagination accompanied with suitable
music; a dithyrambic ode. - SHIHON overturning, a town of Issachar (Joshua 19:19).
- SHIHOR dark, (1 Chronicles 13:5), the southwestern boundary of
Canaan, the Wady el-‘Arish. (See SIHOR; NILE.) - SHIHOR-LIBNATH black-white, a stream on the borders of Asher,
probably the modern Nahr Zerka, i.e., the “crocodile brook,” or “blue
river”, which rises in the Carmel range and enters the Mediterranean a little
to the north of Caesarea (Joshua 19:26). Crocodiles are still found in the
Zerka. Thomson suspects “that long ages ago some Egyptians, accustomed
to worship this ugly creature, settled here (viz., at Caesarea), and brought
their gods with them. Once here they would not easily be exterminated”
(The Land and the Book). - SHILHIM aqueducts, a town in the south of Judah (Joshua 15:32); called
also Sharuhen and Shaaraim (19:6). - SHILOAH, THE WATERS OF =Siloah, (Nehemiah 3:15) and Siloam
(q.v.) - SHILOH generally understood as denoting the Messiah, “the peaceful
one,” as the word signifies (Genesis 49:10). The Vulgate Version translates
the word, “he who is to be sent,” in allusion to the Messiah; the Revised
Version, margin, “till he come to Shiloh;” and the LXX., “until that which
is his shall come to Shiloh.” It is most simple and natural to render the
expression, as in the Authorized Version, “till Shiloh come,” interpreting it
as a proper name (comp. Isaiah 9:6).
Shiloh, a place of rest, a city of Ephraim, “on the north side of Bethel,”
from which it is distant 10 miles (Judges 21:19); the modern Seilun (the
Arabic for Shiloh), a “mass of shapeless ruins.” Here the tabernacle was
set up after the Conquest (Joshua 18:1-10), where it remained during all
the period of the judges till the ark fell into the hands of the Philistines.
“No spot in Central Palestine could be more secluded than this early
sanctuary, nothing more featureless than the landscape around; so
featureless, indeed, the landscape and so secluded the spot that from the