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(Heb. Sebam', ùְׂáָí , fragrance; Sept. ÓåâáìÜ , and so the Samar. Cod. ùáîä ), one of the towns in the pastoral district on the east of Jordan — the “land of Jazer and the land of Gilead” — demanded, and finally ceded to the tribes of Reuben and Gad (Num_32:3). It is named between Elealeh and Nebo, and is probably the same which, in a subsequent verse of the chapter and on later occasions, appears in the altered forms of SHIBMAH and SIBMAH SEE SIBMAH (q.v.).