Ahlab

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.

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.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

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

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.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Judges 1:31

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Judges 1:31

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 Gischala).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a´lab ( אחלב , 'aḥlābh , "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 Gush Halab or Geschila, Northwest of the Sea of Galilee.