ZIPHRON.An unknown point on the northern frontier of Canaan (Num_34:9 f.); perhaps the same as Sibraim of Eze_47:16.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
On the northern boundary of the promised land (Num_34:9). Between Zedad (Sudud) and Hazar Enan (Kurietein). Hazar Hatticon is apparently substituted in Eze_47:16-17, for Ziphron.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
zif?ron. See SIBRAIM.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
[some Ziph'ron] (Heb. Ziphron', זַפְרֹן, fragrance [Gesen.] or beautiful top [Fürst]; Sept. Ζεφρωνά v.r. Δεφρωνά; Vulg. Zephrona, both from the directive הof the Heb.), a place on the northern boundary of the Promised Land, and consequently also of Naphtali (Num_34:9, where it is mentioned between Zedad and Hazar-enan; possibly the present Kaukaba, a village high. up the western slope of Wady et-Teim (Robinson, Laier Res. p. 385). In the parallel passage (Eze_47:16), Hazar- hattieon (q.v.) occurs in a similar connection. According to Jerome (ad loc. Ezech.), it was the Zephyrium Ciliciae (Mannert,VII, 2, 66,76). But this is too far away. Wetzstein thinks it is the extensive river Zifran, fourteen hours north-east of Damascus (Reisebericht über Hauran, p. 88); but this is equally out of the question (comp. Schwarz, Palest. p. 27). SEE TRIBE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.