Zeboim is the name in English of two or three places in the Bible:
# Zeboim, Zeboiim or Tzvoyim () was one of the "five cities of the plain" of
Sodom, generally coupled with
Admah (Gen. 10:19; 14:2; Deut. 29:23; Hos. 11:8). It had a
king
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of its own ("Shemeber", שמאבר, Gen. 14:2), and was therefore a place of some importance. It was destroyed along with the other cities of the plain, according to Deuteronomy 29:23.
# The Valley of Zeboyim ( ''Gē haṣṢāḇoʻim'', "Valley of the Hyenas"), a valley or rugged
glen
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somewhere near
Gibeah
Gibeah (; ''Gīḇəʿā''; ''Gīḇəʿaṯ'') is the name of three places mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in the tribes of Tribe of Benjamin, Benjamin, Tribe of Judah, Judah, and Tribe of Ephraim, Ephraim respectively.
Gibeah of Benjamin, als ...
in
Benjamin
Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twe ...
(1 Sam. 13:18). It was probably the place now bearing the name ''Wadi Shaykh aḍ-Ḍubʻa'' "Ravine of the Chief of the
Hyena
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s" north of
Jericho
Jericho ( ; , ) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Jericho Governorate. Jericho is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west. It had a population of 20,907 in 2017.
F ...
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# Zeboim ( ''Ṣāḇoʻim'', "Hyenas"), a place mentioned only in the
Book of Nehemiah
The Book of Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible largely takes the form of a first-person memoir by Nehemiah, a Hebrew prophet and high official at the Persian court, concerning the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile and the ...
11:34, inhabited by the Benjamites after the
Babylonian captivity
The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile was the period in Jewish history during which a large number of Judeans from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were forcibly relocated to Babylonia by the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The deportations occurred ...
.
See also
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Admah – one of the five "cities of the plain"
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Sodom and Gomorrah
In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah () were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness. Sodom and Gomorrah are repeatedly invoked throughout the Hebrew Bible, Deuterocanonical texts, and the New Testament as symbols of sin, di ...
– two of the five "cities of the plain"
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Zoar, former Bela – one of the five "cities of the plain"
References
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Torah cities
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Destroyed populated places