compassing about; old men
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
A town in the land E. of Jordan, assigned to Reuben and Gad (Num_32:3). The same as Shibmah or Sibmah.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
She'bam. (fragrance). One of the towns, in the pastoral district on the east of Jordan; demanded by, and finally ceded to, the tribes of Reuben and Gad. Num_32:3. It is probably the same as Shibmah, Num_32:38, and Sibmah. Jos_13:13; Isa_16:8-9; Jer_48:32. See Shibmah; Sibmah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
shē?bam. See SEBAM.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Sebam', שְׂבָם, fragrance; Sept. Σεβαμά, and so the Samar. Cod. שבמה), one of the towns in the pastoral district on the east of Jordan the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead demanded, and finally ceded to the tribes of Reuben and Gad (Num_32:3). It is named between Elealeh and Nebo, and is probably the same which, in a subsequent verse of the chapter and on later occasions, appears in the altered forms of SHIBMAH and SIBMAH SEE SIBMAH (q.v.).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.