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Shalisha

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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1 Samuel 9:4. Between Mount Ephraim and Shalim. Keil makes Shalisha the country round Baal-Shalishah (2 Kings 4:42), 2 Kings 4:15 Roman miles N. of Diospolis (Lydda); according to Eusebius (Onom.) probably the country W. of Jiljilia where three wadies run into the one called Kurawa, from whence came the name Shalisha , i.e. threeland. There are ruins, Sirisia, Salita, Shilta, and Kefr thilth, all modifications of the Hebrew shalish "three." In the shephelah .

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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Shalisha'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​s/shalisha.html. 1949.
 
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