SEGUB sē’ gub (שְׂגִיב, H8439, Qere שְׂג֤וּב ; LXX Σεγοῦβ, exalted). 1. The youngest son of Hiel of Bethel who rebuilt Jericho during Ahab’s reign (1 Kings 16:34). The Targums say Hiel offered Segub and his brother Abiram as foundation sacrifices, a common rite among the pagans of the area (cf. John Gray, I and II Kings, p. 334). De Vaux (AIs, 441f.) says that if this incident is foundation sacrifice, it was due to Phoen. influence. Such sacrifices are attested at Gezer where three skeletons were found under a foundation from c. 1800 b.c. (cf. BA, XXX [1967], p. 56). The writer of Kings considered the death of Hiel’s sons as a fulfillment of Joshua’s curse upon anyone who tried to rebuild Jericho (Josh 6:26).

2. Son of Hebron, grandson of Machir, great-grandson of Judah (1 Chron 2:21, 22), LXX Σεροῦχ, Lucian’s Gr., Σεγοῦβ.