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Shur
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
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Shur, a city on the confines of Egypt and Palestine (;;;; ). Josephus makes it the same as Pelusium (Antiq. vi. 7. 3; comp. ) but this city bore among the Hebrews the name of Sin. More probably Shur was somewhere in the vicinity of the modern Suez. The desert extending from the borders of Palestine to Shur, is called in , the 'desert of Shur,' but in , the 'desert of Etham.'
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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Shur'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/kbe/s/shur.html.
Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Shur'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/kbe/s/shur.html.
