seeing and hearing. In addition to this, the air is wonderfully clear, both for seeing and hearing.
Dean Stanley says that “from the highest point of Ras Sufsafeh to its lower peak, a distance of
about 60 feet, the page of a book distinctly but not loudly read was perfectly audible.” It was the
belief of the Arabs who conducted Niebuhr that they could make themselves heard across the Gulf
of Akabah,—a belief fostered by the great distance to which the voice can actually be carried.
There is no other place known among all these mountains so well adapted for the purpose of giving
and receiving the law as this rocky pulpit of Ras Sufsafeh and the natural amphitheatre of er Rahah.
Sinim
a people noticed in (Isaiah 49:12) as living at the extremity of the known world. They may be
identified with the classical Sinoe, the inhabitants of the southern part of China.
Sinite
a tribe of Canaanites, (Genesis 10:17; 1 Chronicles 1:15) whose position is to be sought for in
the northern part of the Lebanon district.
Sion
(lofty), Mount.
•One of the various names of Mount Hermon. (4:48) only.
•The Greek form of the Hebrew name Zion, the famous mount of the temple. 1 Macc. 4:37,60;
5:54; 6:48,62; 7:33; 10:11; 14:27; (Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 14:1) [Jerusalem]
Siphmoth
(fruitful), one of the places in the south of Judah which David frequented during his freebooting
life. (1 Samuel 30:28)
Sippai
(threshold), Saph, one of the sons of Rephaim, or “the giants,” slain by Sibbechai at Gezer. ( 1
Chronicles 20:4) (B.C. about 1050.)
Sirach
the father of Jesus (Joshua), the writer of the Hebrew original of the book of Ecclesiasticus.
(B.C. 310-220.)
Sirah
(the turning), The well of, from which Abner was recalled by Joab to his death at Hebron. ( 2
Samuel 3:26) only. It was apparently on the northern road from Hebron. There is a spring and
reservoir on the western side of the ancient northern road, about one mile out of Hebron, which is
called Ain Sara.
Sirion
(breastplate), one of the various names of Mount Hermon, that by which it was known to the
Zidonians. (3:9) The use of the name in (Psalms 29:6) (slightly altered in the original—Shirion
instead of Sirion) is remarkable.
Sisamai
a descendant of Sheshan in the line of Jerahmeel. (1 Chronicles 2:40) (B.C. about 1450.)
Sisera
(battle array).
•Captain of the army of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. He himself resided in Harosheth
of the Gentiles. The particulars of the rout of Megiddo and of Sisera’s flight and death are drawn
out under the heads of Barak, Deborah, Jael, Kishon. (B.C. 1296.)
frankie
(Frankie)
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