Zeboim (Hebrew Bible)


Zeboim is the name in English of two or three places in the Bible:
  1. Zeboim, Zeboiim or Tzvoyim was one of the "five cities of the plain" of Sodom, generally coupled with Admah. It had a king of its own, and was therefore a place of some importance. It was destroyed along with the other cities of the plain, according to Deuteronomy 29:23.
  2. Gē haṣṢāḇoʻim, a valley or rugged glen somewhere near Gibeah in Benjamin. It was probably the place now bearing the name Wadi Shaykh aḍ-Ḍubʻa "Ravine of the Chief of the Hyenas" north of Jericho.
  3. Ṣāḇoʻim, a place mentioned only in the Book of Nehemiah 11:34, inhabited by the Benjamites after the Babylonian captivity.