Asphar The Pool

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as´far, (λάκκος Ἀσφάρ, lákkos Asphár):

When Jonathan and Simon fled from Bacchides they encamped by this pool in the wilderness of Tekoa (1 Maccabees 9:33; Ant, XIII, i, 2). It is probably identical with Ez-Za‛ferāneh, a ruined site with an ancient cistern, to the South of Tekoa, and East of Ḥalḥūl. Bîr Selhub about 6 miles Southwest of ‛Ain Jidy is favored by some (EB, under the word), the hills around it being known as Ṣafrā, in which there may be a survival of the old name.