Sepharvaim

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Sepharvaim
     taken by Sargon, king of Assyria (2 Kings 17:24; 18:34; 19:13;
     Isa. 37:13). It was a double city, and received the common name
     Sepharvaim, i.e., "the two Sipparas," or "the two booktowns."
     The Sippara on the east bank of the Euphrates is now called
     Abu-Habba; that on the other bank was Accad, the old capital of


     Sargon I., where he established a great library. (See {SARGON}.) The recent discovery of cuneiform inscriptions at
     Tel el-Amarna in Egypt, consisting of official despatches to
     Pharaoh Amenophis IV. and his predecessor from their agents in
     Palestine, proves that in the century before the Exodus an
     active literary intercourse was carried on between these
     nations, and that the medium of the correspondence was the
     Babylonian language and script. (See KIRJATH-{SEPHER}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Sepharvaim, the two books; the two scribes