Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
), Judg. 1:17. It has been identified with the pass of es-Sufah, but with greater probability with S’beita.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(watch-tower), the earlier name, (Judges 1:17) of a Canaanite town, which after its capture and destruction was called by the Israelites Hormah.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
ZE'PHATH (watch-tower), a city and tower in the mountains of the Amorites, near Kadesh, Judg 1:17; identified by Palmer and Drake with the ruins of a city called Sebaitah, in the midst of a fertile plain. It was the same as Hormah, which see.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
which beholds; that attends or that covers