Saph'ir. (fair). One of the villages, addressed by the prophet, Micha, Micah 1:11, is described by Eusebius and Jerome as "in the mountain district between Eleutheropolis and Ascalon," perhaps represented by the village es-Sawafir, seven or eight miles to the northeast of Ascalon.
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