SIBRAIM.A point on the ideal northern boundary of the Holy Land (Eze_47:16); site uncertain.
Cf. Ziphnon.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A landmark N. of the Holy Land (Eze_47:16), between the boundary of Damascus and Hamath.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Sibra'im. (twofold hope). One of the landmarks, on the northern boundary of the Holy Land, as stated by Ezekiel. Eze_47:16. It has not been identified.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
sib-rā?im, sib?ra-im (סברים, ṣibhrayim; Codex Vaticanus Σεβράμ, Sebrám; Codex Alexandrinus Σεφράμ, Sephrám): A place named as on the boundary of Palestine in Ezekiel's ideal delineation, ?between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath? (Eze_47:16). It may possibly be represented by the modern Khirbet Sanbariyeh on the west bank of Nahr el-Ḥasbāny, about 3 miles Southeast of ‛Abil.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
[many Sibra'im] (Heb. Sibra'yim, סְבְרִיַ, twofold hope [Gesenius], or double hill [Furst]; Sept. Σαβαρίμ. v.r. [ς] ῾Εβραμή or Ε, ράμ [ἠλειάμ]; Vulg. Sabarim), one of the landmarks on the northern boundary of the Holy Land, between Berothah and Hazar-hatticon, and between the boundary of Damascus and that of Hamath (Eze_47:16). Keil (Comment. ad loc.) suggests that it may be identical with the ZIPHRON SEE ZIPHRON (q.v.) of the parallel passage (Num_34:9).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.