Bible Location
Meaning: this mouth or mouthful; falsehood · 6 cross references · Modern-day map available
Ziph was a town in the hill country of Judah south-east of Hebron. It is important because the surrounding wilderness became one of David's best-known hiding places while he fled from Saul, and because the town also appears in Judah's defensive landscape. First appears in Josh 15:55.1
AI summary: Ziph's significance is bound tightly to the David narratives. The wilderness around it becomes one of the tense southern landscapes where David hides, is tracked, and narrowly avoids capture, giving the place a strong association with betrayal, survival, and dependence on God. The title of Psalm 54 preserves that emotional memory even more sharply. At the same time, Ziph remains a real Judahite town within the settled and fortified geography of the south. The cross references present Ziph as both a hill-country settlement and a wilderness refuge in the story of David's rise.1
A city in the mountains of Judah (Josh. 15:55), identified with the uninhabited ruins of Tell ez-Zif, about 5 miles south-east of Hebron. Here David hid himself during his wanderings (1 Sam. 23:19; Ps. 54, title). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.