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( Óήñùí ; in Syr. and one Gr. MS. ῞Çñùí ; Vulg. Seron), a general of Antiochus Epiphanes, in chief command of the Syrian army (1Ma_3:13, ὁ ἄñ÷ùí ôῆò äõíÜìåùò Óõñßáò ), who was defeated at Beth-horon by Judas Maccabaeus (B.C. 166), as in the day when Joshua pursued the five kings “in the going down of Bethhoron” (1Ma_3:24; Jos_10:11). According to Josephus, he was the governor of Coele-Syria and fell in the battle (Ant. 12, 7,1), nor is there any reason to suppose that his statements are mere deductions from the language of 1 Macc.