Kithlish
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
("dashing down of the lion"). From Kathath Layish . A town of Judah in the Shephelah or lower hills ( Joshua 15:40). Now El Jilas. Traces of the "lion" abound on all sides; in the plains of Dan on the N. ( Deuteronomy 33:22; Judges 14:5), in the uplands of Judah on the E. ( Genesis 49:9; 1 Samuel 17:34), and in "the S.," the droughty land between Palestine and Egypt ( 2 Samuel 23:20; Isaiah 30:6).
Smith's Bible Dictionary [2]
Kith'lish. (Man'S Wall). One of the towns of Judah, in the Shefelah , or lowland. Joshua 15:40.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [3]
City in the lowlands of Judah. Joshua 15:40 . Not identified.
Holman Bible Dictionary [4]
Easton's Bible Dictionary [5]
Joshua 15:40
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [6]
(Heb. Kithlish', כַּתְלישׁ , prob. for אַישׁ כְּתִל , a Man'S Wall; Sept. Χαθαλείς v. r. Καθλώς ant Μααχώς ,Vulg. Cethlis), a town in the valley or plain (Shephelah) of Judah, mentioned between Lahmam and Gederoth ( Joshua 15:40); evidently situated in the south-western group, possibly at the "mound and some foundations called Jelamneh" (Robinson, Researches, ii, 386), on wady el-Heroy, between Gaza and Lachish (Van de Velde, Map). A writer in Fairbairn's Dictionary, s.v., proposes the ruined site el-Jilas given by Smith (in Robinson's Res. 3, Appendix, p. 119) in this vicinity; but this is not laid down on any map, if, indeed, it be not the same place as the above. The derivation proposed by the same writer for the name Kithlish, from כָּתִת , To Crush, and לִיַשׁ , a lion, as if it were the haunt of that animal, is fanciful, and unwarranted by any allusion of the kind in the text; the form, moreover, would then have been כּתְּלַישׁ .
