sound; wall of strength
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Shi'hon. (ruin). A town of Issachar, named only in Jos_19:19. Eusebius mentions it as then existing "near Mount Tabor."
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
shı̄?hon (שׁיאון, shı̄'ōn). See SHION.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Shion', שַׁיאוןruin; Sept. Σιων α v.r. Σειάν; Vulg. Seon; A.V. originally Shion), a town of Issachar named only in Jos_19:19, where it occurs between Haphraim and Anaharath. Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast.) mention it as then existing near Mount Tabor. A name resembling it at present in that neighborhood is the Khirbet Shi'in of Dr. Schulz (Zimmermann, Map of Galilee, 1861), one and a half mile northwest of Deburieh. This is probably the place mentioned by Schwarz (Palest. p. 166) as Sain between Duberieh and Jafa. The identification is, however, very uncertain, since Shi'in appears to contain the Ain, while the Hebrew name does not. Smith. On this and other accounts we prefer the position of the modern village esh-Shajerah, a little north of Tabor (Robinson, Researches 3, 219, note).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.