Saphamōth. Where David sent.
Seeira. (Name of) well (at which) Joab turned away (back) Abner (the chief of the army).
Souba. Whose king David defeated.
Sarthan. Below (at the foot of) Iezrael.
Sōpheira (Soupheir). Where Solomon's ships went. Noted above (of which we spoke above). Mountain in the east (region) of India.
Serōra. City on the way to Edom.
Saba. Royal city of the Aithiopians which Josephus affirms Cambuse (the queen) named Meroen from the name or her own sister.
Sela. Where Joas was beaten.
Sephpharouem (Saffaruaim). From here the Assyrians moved to another place (transmigrating) to live in Samaria, from whom (arose the beginnings of the) are the Samaritan nation. Isaia mentions it.
Sademoth. Where Josias (the king) burned (the images of) the idols.
Sarepta. Famous village (little city) of Sidon (Sidonians on the highway) where Elias (once) "dwelled.
Sarōn. (Which) Isaia (mentions saying), "Sarōn became a swamp" and the territory from Mt.Thabor to Lake Tiberias is now called Sarōnas. There is another Saronas, the region from Caesarea to Joppa. (All the land from Caesarea Palestine to the city of Joppa is called Saronas.)
Sephela. (As written) in Isaia. (For which) Aquila (interprets) "plain," Symmachus "valley." Even now it is called Sephela. It is all the region (fields and plains) around Eleutheropolis to the north and the west.
Sennaar. In Micheae. (For which) Aquila (interprets) "Sannaan," Symmachus "flourishing" (fertile). (Michea the prophet mentions this.)
Sedrach. Land or Damascus. (We read) in Zacharia.
Siōn. Mountain (in the city) of Jerusalem.
Samareia (Samaria). Royal city of Israel. Now (it is called) Sebastē. Also the region around it. [Receives its name from that city.]
Sor (Tyre). Phoenician metropolis. Lot of (in tribe of) Naphthali.
Soēne. City of Thebes. In Ezechiel (as Ezechiel writes).
Sais. City of Egypt. [Ezechiel mentions it. District of Saites also.]
Sadala. Border of Judaea as in Ezechiel (as Ezechiel writes).
Sabareim. "On the border between Damascus and Aimath" as in Ezechiel (as Ezechiel writes).
Salisa. (For which) Aquila (interprets) "three years." As in Jeremia. (Jeremia mentions this.)
Suchar. Before Neapolis near the field which Jacob gave to Joseph his son. In it the Christ (our Savior) according to John conversed with the Samaritan (woman) at the well. It is even now pointed out (where a church is now built).
Tigris. The river going out east from Paradise, according to Scripture, "over against Assyria" (after many turns) flowing "into the Red Sea" as Josephus affirms. It is called by the nickname Tigris because of the violence resembling that of the like-named animal. (Properly called by this name because the excessively swift current is like the quickness of the animal.)