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The Places of Wisdom of Sirach

Wisdom of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) names 18 places; Zion, Jerusalem and Ephraim most often. 18 of them can be put on a map, 14 with confidence. They are read from the Septuagint in Brenton’s translation and each is matched to OpenBible.info or Pleiades, or left unlocated when neither knows where it stood.

Map of From Egypt to Persia with the places named in Wisdom of Sirach. Every place is listed in the table below.30°E35°E40°E45°E50°E25°N30°N35°N40°NZionJerusalemJerichoMount HermonMount HorebMount SinaiSamariaShechemZionJerusalemEphraimLebanonEgyptEuphratesGihonMount HermonMount HorebMount SinaiN0400 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
From Egypt to Persia, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 2 places lie beyond the plate and are in the table.

Every place in Wisdom of Sirach

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Zion (Sion)24:10, 36:19, 48:18, 48:24OpenBible.infoHigh
Jerusalem24:11, 36:18, 50:27OpenBible.infoHigh
Ephraim47:21, 47:23OpenBible.infoHigh
Judea (Juda)45:25, 49:4OpenBible.infoHigh
Lebanon (Libanus)24:13, 50:12OpenBible.infoHigh
Egypt1:1eOpenBible.infoHigh
Euphrates24:26OpenBible.infoHigh
Gihon (Geon)24:27OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 79)
Jericho24:14OpenBible.infoHigh
Jordan24:26OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Hermon (Hermon)24:13OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Horeb (Horeb)48:7OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Sinai (Sinai)48:7OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 463)
Ophir (Suphir)Beyond this plate.7:18OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 190)
Pishon (Phison)Beyond this plate.24:25OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 30)
Samaria50:26OpenBible.infoHigh
Shechem (Sichem)50:26OpenBible.infoHigh
Tigris24:25OpenBible.infoHigh

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain. Scripture and the spellings of names from Brenton’s English translation of the Septuagint (1851), public domain.