Encyclopedia of The Bible – Bozez
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Bozez

BOZEZ, bō’ zĭz (Heb. בּﯴצֵ֔ץ). The northern of two rocky crags (the southern was called Seneh) situated on either side of the pass of Michmash (1 Sam 14:4). It was apparently this crag, or near it, that Jonathan and his armorbearer climbed when attacking the Philistine outpost. The exact spot has not been identified although doubtless both lay near the sharp bend of the pass (modern Wadi es-Suweinît). See S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Samuel2 (1913), 106; and esp. L. Grollenberg, Atlas of the Bible (1963), 68, 189, 190.