Ziz
Ziz
(Heb. with the art. hats-Tsits, הִצַּי, the projection; Sept. Α᾿σαέ v.r. Α᾿σσεῖς; Vulg. Sis), the name of a cliff (מִעֲלֶה, 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. ver. 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).
