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Places of the Bible

Sirah

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Sirah, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

  • Reign of David · 1054 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Retiring, a well from which Joab’s messenger brought back Abner (2 Sam. 3:26). It is now called ‘Ain Sarah, and is situated about a mile from Hebron, on the road to the north.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 1 verse

2 Samuel
3:26

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.