Bible Dictionary

Seirath

Woody district; shaggy, a place among the mountains of Ephraim, bordering on Benjamin, to which Ehud fled after he had assassinated Eglon at Jericho (Judg. 3:26, 27).

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

Woody district; shaggy, a place among the mountains of Ephraim, bordering on Benjamin, to which Ehud fled after he had assassinated Eglon at Jericho (Judg. 3:26, 27).

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(the shaggy), the place to which Ehud fled after his murder of Eglon. (Judges 3:26,27) It was in “Mount Ephraim,” ver. 27, a continuation, perhaps, of the same wooded, shaggy hills which stretched even so far south as to enter the territory of Judah, (Joshua 15:10) (It is probably the same place as Mount, Mount, Mountain Seir, 2.)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

SE'IRATH (she-goat), the place of refuge whither Ehud fled after his murder of Eglon. Jud 3:26-27. Perhaps it may be found in Mount Ephraim, a continuation of the rugged bushy hills which stretched to Judah's northern boundary.