Sarid

Sarid is a boundary-marker for the tribe of Zebulun's inheritance, named twice in the allotment notice as the anchor from which the tribal border runs west and then turns eastward.

A Boundary of Zebulun

The third lot of the tribal distribution opens at Sarid: "And the third lot came up for the sons of Zebulun according to their families; and the border of their inheritance was to Sarid" (Jos 19:10).

The line then runs westward to Maralah and Dabbesheth, reaching the brook before Jokneam (Jos 19:11), before pivoting back at the same point: "and it turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising to the border of Chisloth-tabor; and it went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia" (Jos 19:12).

Sarid functions as the hinge of the survey — the place where the allotment's western reach meets its eastern turn — and so fixes one of the cardinal points of Zebulun's territory.