BASCAMA.An unknown town of Gilead (1Ma_13:23).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
bas?ka-ma (Βασκαμά, Baskamá (1 Macc 13:23)): A town located in the country of Gilead, where Tryphon slew Jonathan, the son of Absalom. Compare JONATHAN (Apocrypha).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Bascama
(ἡ Βασκαμά, Josephus Βασκά), a place in Gilead where Jonathan Maccabaeus was killed by Trypho, and from which his bones were afterward disinterred and conveyed to Modin by his brother Simon (1Ma_13:23; Joseph. Ant. 13:6, 6). Schwarz supposes it to be the Talmudical Bashkar (בִּשְׁכָּר) or Basgar (בִּסְגָּר) of Arabia (Palest. p. 236, 237). The route of the Syrian murderer is given with so much confusion (see Fritzsche, in loc.) that some have even supposed the Bozkath of Judah to be meant.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.