Zif
Ziph was a town of Judah, located in the Judean Mountains south-east of Hebron. According to the biblical narrative in 1 Samuel 23, David hid himself from Saul here.- Type: Residential area
- Description: former town in the Judean Mountains, south-east of Hebron
- Also known as: “Tall Zīf” and “Ziph”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ar-Rifa’iyya.
Ar-Rifa’iyya
Residential area
Ar-Rifa'iyya, is a Palestinian village in the Hebron Governorate, located east of the city of Yatta and south of the city of Hebron in the West Bank, and within the lands occupied after the 1967 war. Ar-Rifa’iyya is situated 3 km southeast of Zif.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khallet al-Maiya and Ma’ale Hever;Maale Hever.
Khallet al-Maiya
Village
Khalet al-Maiyya خلة المية is a Palestinian village located nine kilometers south of Hebron and four kilometers west of Yatta. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. Khallet al-Maiya is situated 3 km southeast of Zif.
Ma’ale Hever;Maale Hever
Village
Photo: Matanya, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ma'ale Hever or Pnei Hever is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the eastern Hebron Hills to the east of Hebron at an elevation of 810 m, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Har Hevron Regional Council. Ma’ale Hever;Maale Hever is situated 4 km northeast of Zif.
Ad Deirat
Village
Ad-Deirat, is a village on the outskirts of Yatta in the Palestinian Hebron Governorate. It is part of the Khalet al-Maiyya village cluster, 11 km to the southeast of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank. It was occupied in 1967. Ad Deirat is situated 4 km southeast of Zif.
Zif
- Categories: former town, hill, tell, and biblical place
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.46688° or 31° 28′ 1″ northLongitude
35.1309° or 35° 7′ 51″ eastOpen location code
8G3QF48J+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
way 787108073OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialWikidata ID
Q8072636
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Zif” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زِيفْ”
- Cebuano: “Tall Zīf”
- Dutch: “Tall Zīf”
- Hebrew: “זיף”
- Russian: “Зиф”
- Ukrainian: “Зіф”
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