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(Heb. with the art. hats-Tsits, äִöַּé , the projection; Sept. Á᾿óáÝ v.r. Á᾿óóåῖò ; Vulg. Sis), the name of a cliff ( îִòֲìֶä , ascent) or pass-by which the band of Moiabites' Ammonites, and Mehunim who attacked Jehoshaphat made. their way up from the shores of the Dead Sea to the wilderness of Judah near Tekoa (2Ch_20:16; comp. 2Ch_20:20). There can be very little doubt that it was the pass of Ain-Jidy “the very same route,” as Robinson remarks, “which is taken by the Arabs in their marauding expeditions at the present day; along the shore as far as to Ain Jidy, and then up the pass, and so northward below Tekua” (Bibl. Res. 1, 508,530). The pass, although exceedingly precipitous, is still a great thoroughfare. (Tristram Lanr I Moab. p. 41). The name haz-Ziz may perhaps be still traceable. in el-Hussah, which is attached to a large tract of table-land lying immediately above the pass of Ain Jidy, between it and Tekuia, and bounded on the north by a wady of the same name (Bibl. Res. 1, 527). Lieut. Conder remarks that there is a ruin called Khirs-bet Aziz south of Yutta (Qsar. Statement of the “Palest. Explor. Fund,” Jan, 1875, p. 15).