Shebarim (Hastings' Dictionary)

A place mentioned (Job 7°) in the description of the pursuit of the Israelites by the men of Ai. RVm (so also Keil, Jotua) tr. hash-shibarim by 'the quarries,' a ren- dering which .Steuernagel (in Nowack's Hdkomm.) is also inclined to accept. The place was on the descent from Ai to the Jordan Vallev, but the name has not been recovered. The LXX (cf. Pesh. and Targ. Di.^yrnv) does not recognize a proper name, but takes the meaning to be ' [they pursued them] till they were broken," i.e.

completely routed and mistly destroyed. See, further, Dillm. ad loc. C. W. Wilson.