Zemaraim

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Zemaraim
     (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.
     

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

  Zemaraim, wool; pith