Segub (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. (aiJlf ^erS, Vi\f Ketkibh ; B Z«7oi'')3, A -eyoOfi) the youngest son of lliiCL who rebuilt Jericho, 1 IC 10". The death of Segub, which synchronized with the setting up of the gates, may have been due to an accident in the build- ing opc'iations, or he may have been ollered in saerihi'e by his father — a circumstance purposely obscured in the present form of the story. See Foi;ndation and HiEL. In any case, popular opinion finally connected the death of Hiel's two sons with a curse believed to have been pronounced by Joshua on the man that should rebuild Jericho. The form in which this curse is expressed in .los 6' is moulded by a knowledge of the events recorded in 1 K 10^. See, further, Bertholct, and esp. Kittel on this last-named pas.sage. 2. (3jk' ; B Sfpoi^x. A i.'t7oi;/i) son of Hczron and father of Jair, 1 Ch 2-"-. J. A. Seluik.