Sansannah (Hastings' Dictionary)

A town in the Negeb (RV 'the South') allotted to Judah (Jos 15^'). It is not mentioned amongst the towns in the Negeb that belonged to Simeon. But, comparing the list in Jos l.")3i with the parallel lists in Jos 19^ and 1 Ch 4'ii, it. will be seen that its place is taken in the one case by llazar-susah, and in the other by Hazar-susim. There is no indication of its posi- tion, a question upon which authorities differ.

Tristram iilentifies it with Beit Siis'iii on the road from Gaza to Egypt; Schwarz {Heil. Land, p. 72), with Simsim on a height N.E. of Gaza ; and Gu6rin, with Sttsich, E.N.E. of es-Semu'a (Esh- temoa). C. W. WILSON. SAPH (1?; B 2d0, A 2c0Oi called in Chronicles Sippai (■??; B ^atpovr, A ^e<f><pl).- — One of four I'hilistine champions of whom it is related that they were born to the giant in Gath, and that they were slain by David's heroes (2 S 21', 1 Ch •20).

There is no difficulty in supposing tliat he was a son of the (Joliath whom David slew, but it is perhaps more natural to understand the term 'the giant' as a collective, making him merely of the same giant stock with Goliath. See Giant. W. J. Beechek.