Probably the same with Circesium or Circusium, a fortified city on the west of the Euphrates, where the river Chaboras enters it. In Isa 10:9, it appears as taken by some king of Assyria. It was attacked by Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, near the close of king Josiah’s reign, 2Ch 35:20. Five years afterwards Necho was signally defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, Jer 46:1-12. In later times was held as a frontier post of the Roman empire on the east.
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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.