ZIPH, or SIPH (anc. geog.), the name of a wilderness or desert in the tribe of Judah, where David was a fugitive; lying to the south-east of Hebron; so called from Ziph or Siph, a twofold town in this tribe; the one more to the south towards Idumea, on the confines of Eleutheropolis, (Jerome); the other eight miles to the east of Hebron, towards the Dead Sea, inclining southwards, because near mount Carmel. Here was a mountain, mentioned 1 Sam. xxiii. 14. in which David abode, said by Jerome to be rugged, dismal, and always overcast. Ziphim, Ziphai, or Ziphem, the inhabitants of Ziph, ver. 19.