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Shion

SHION, or Seon, a City of the Tribe of Issachar, Josh. xix. 19. The Hebrew1 reads it, Shion, or Sion. Eusebius says,2 that even in his Time there was a Place call’d Seon, at the Foot of Mount Tabor.

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  1. שיאוןShihon. or Sihon. ↩

  2. Euseb. Onomast. in Seon. ↩

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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Shion,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/s/shion/.

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