HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6787
צְמָרַיִם
tse.ma.ra.yim — (Mount) Zemaraim
§ Zemaraim = "double fleece of wool" a hill in Ephraim
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Zemaraim
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
(1.) A town of Benjamin (Josh. 18:22); now the ruin, rather two ruins, es-Sumrah, 4 miles north of Jericho. (2.) A mount in the highlands of Ephraim, to the north of Jerusalem (2 Chr. 13:4-20). Here the armies of Abijah and Jeroboam engaged in a bloody battle, which issued in the total defeat of the king of Israel, who never “recovered strength again,” and soon after died.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.