Sect (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Heresy, vol. ii. p. 351. SECD (13^?, with the article ; B A> ti? St^ef, A iw SoKxw)- — A plaice mentioned only in 1 S 19^. It was not far from Ramah (Samuel's residence), and apparently on the road from Gibeah to that place. In or near it there was a large cistern (RV'the great well' [Vnsn ni2], RVm 'the well cf the threshing floor ' [pS.i '3, LXX ippiarm toO 4Xw]) which Saul passed on his journey.

The place is unknown, and its site depends upon the position assigned respectively to Gibeah and Ramah. Several identifications have been proposed : for instance. Sir A'ebala, near Gibeon (Smith's DB), Khurbet Shuweikeh, a little S. of Bireh (Conder, PEF Mem. iii. 52, 126), and the ancient reservoir at Solomon's Pools (PEFSt, 1898, p. 17), but this last is dependent ujion an improbable site for Ramah (see above, p. 198"). The LXX (B) i^ t^ ^eipel implies the Heb.

-tifij = ' bare height' (often in Jeremiah). This is preferred to MT by Thenius, Driver (Text 0/ Sam. ad. loc), LOhr, H. P. Smith, and recent writers in general. C. W. Wilson.