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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
A fortified town E. of Jordan, rebuilt by Gad (Num_32:35). Rather write Atroth Shophan, i.e. "Ataroth of the burrow," to distinguish it from Ataroth in Num_32:34.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Sho'phan (bareness). One of the fortified towns, on the east of Jordan, which were taken possession of, and rebuilt, by the tribe of Gad. Num_32:35.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
shō?fan (שוּפן, shōphān). See ATROTH-SHOPHAN.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Shophan', ]שׁוֹפָ, prob. i.q. Shaphan; Sept. Σοφάρ; Samar. שפי ם; Vulg. Sophar), given in the A.V. as one of the fortified towns on the east of Jordan which were taken possession of and rebuilt by the tribe of Gad (Num_32:35); but probably a mere affix (significant, according to some, of bareness) to the second Atroth, to distinguish it from the former one, not an independent place. SEE ATAROTH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.