Hebrew word · H3798
כִּתְלִישׁ
vekhitlish
Chitlish
A proper name for a lowland town. Older lexicons tried to explain it from kotel, 'wall' (a word found in Song of Songs 2:9). The ending is unusual, though, and no explanation is generally accepted.
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
one of the lowland towns of Judah
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
From the study of Joshua 15:40
- Range of meaning
A proper name for a lowland town. Older lexicons tried to explain it from kotel, 'wall' (a word found in Song of Songs 2:9). The ending is unusual, though, and no explanation is generally accepted.
- Against the English
'Kithlish' (KJV, YLT), 'Chitlish' (BSB, WEB), or 'Kitlish' in versions that write the Hebrew letter as K. These are spelling conventions only.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Named only in Joshua 15:40. The site has not been identified. Popular name-meaning books give it meanings such as 'a man's wall', but those are guesses.
Similar words
Where it appears
Joshua · 1
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Joshua 15:40 וְכִתְלִֽישׁ׃ and Kitlish
Cabbon, Lahmas, Chitlish,
Here: The last town in this verse, again named only here and not located. The verse ends with the Hebrew full-stop mark, but the sentence keeps going into verse 41, where the district total ('sixteen cities') is given.
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