* For the Arab village and neighborhood, see Silwan * For the ancient city and contemporary Jewish neighborhood, see City of David Siloam is an ancient Greek name derived from the more ancient Hebrew Shiloah. the Arabic: Silwan, was derived form the Greek, Siloam. It is an ancient site in Jerusalem, south of the Old City. Antiquity According to the Hebrew Bible, the ancient community of Siloam was built around the "serpent-stone", Zoheleth, where Adonijah gave his feast in the time of Solomon.… (More on Siloam)