Ahlab

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Judges 1:31

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A city of Asher, whence the Canaanites were not driven out ( Judges 1:31 ). More recently Gush Chaleb, or Giscala, whence came John, son of Levi, leader in the siege of Jerusalem; said to be the birthplace of Paul's parents. Now Eljish, near Safed, in the hills N.W. of the lake of Tiberias.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Judges 1:31

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

AHLAB . A city of Asher ( Judges 1:31 ). The site has been Identified with the later Gush Halab or Giscala , now el-Jîsh in Upper Galilee; but this is, of course, uncertain.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City in Canaan, the inhabitants of which Asher failed to drive out. Judges 1:31 . It has been identified with el-Jish, 33 2' N, 35 26' E.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ah'lab. (fertile). A city of Asher from which the Canaanites were not driven out. Judges 1:31 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

<translit> a´lab </translit> ( אחלב , <translit> 'aḥlābh </translit> , "fat or fruitful"): A town of Asher. It is clear, however, that the Israelites failed to drive away the original inhabitants ( Judges 1:31 ). Some have identified Ahlab with <translit> Gush Halab </translit> or Geschila, Northwest of the Sea of Galilee.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrew Achlab', אְְחלָב , fatness, i e. fertile; Sept. Ἀχλάβ v. r. Δαλάφ ), a town of Asher, apparently near Zidon and Achzib, the native inhabitants of which the Israelites were unable to expel ( Judges 1:31 ). Its lying thus within the unconquered Phoenician border may be the reason of its omission in the list of the Asherite cities ( Joshua 19:24-31 ). It is supposed (see Schwarz, Palest. p. 198) that Achlab reappears in later history as Gush-Chalab ( גּוּשׁ חָלבְ ) or Giscala (Reland, Palest. p. 813, 817), a place lately identified by Robinson under the abbreviated name of el-Jish, near Safed, in the hilly country to the northwest of the sea of Galilee (Researches, new ed. 2:446; 3, 73). This place was in rabbinical times famous for its oil, and the old olive-trees still remain in the neighborhood (Reland and Robinson, ib.). From it came the famous John, son of Levi, the leader in the siege of Jerusalem (Joseph. Life, 10; War, 2, 21, 1), and it had a legendary celebrity as the birth-place of the parents of no less a person than the Apostle Paul (Jerome, Comment. ad Ep. ad Philem.). But this cannot be the Ahlab of Asher. (See <a> GISCHALA </a> ).