(lair of wild beasts ).

1. A village of the tribe of Simeon, specified only in the list in ( 1 Chronicles 4:32 ) comp. Josh 19:7
2. A place in Judah, fortified and garrisoned by Rehoboam. ( 2 Chronicles 11:6 ) Here, according to the statements of Josephus and the Talmudists, were the sources of the water from which Solomons gardens and the pleasure-grounds were fed, and Bethlehem and the temple supplied.