Sitnah Enmity

Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia

(hostility; strife) (Gen. 26:21)—the name Isaac gave a well because his herdsmen quarreled there with the Philistine herdsmen. It lay in the Valley of Gerar or in that direction. The source notes a proposed survival of the name in the Wadi Shutain south of Elusa, but the identification is uncertain.

Scripture cited

Genesis 26:21

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