Asphar the Pool
Asphar the Pool
asfar, ( , lakkos Asphar): When Jonathan and Simon fled from Bacchides they encamped by this pool in the wilderness of Tekoa (1 Macc 9:33; Ant, XIII, i, 2). It is probably identical with Ez-Zaferaneh, a ruined site with an ancient cistern, to the South of Tekoa, and East of Halhul. Br Selhub about 6 miles Southwest of Ain Jidy is favored by some (EB, under the word), the hills around it being known as Safra, in which there may be a survival of the old name.