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•SHIGGAION from the verb shagah, “to reel about through drink,” occurs in the title of Psalm 7. The plural form, shigionoth, is found in Habakkuk 3:1. The word denotes a lyrical poem composed under strong mental emotion; a song of impassioned imagination accompanied with suitable music; a dithyrambic ode.
•SHIHON overturning, a town of Issachar (Joshua 19:19).
•SHIHOR dark, (1 Chronicles 13:5), the southwestern boundary of Canaan, the Wady el-‘Arish. (See SIHOR; NILE.)