1 Samuel 23:15

in a wood The word chôreshtranslated "wood" in 1 Samuel 23:15; 1 Samuel 23:18does not occur again in Samuel. Lieut. Conder argues from the dry unwatered character of the district that no wood of trees can ever have flourished there, and conjectures that Chôreshwas a proper name with a different signification. He found the ruin of Khoreisaand the Valley of Hireshin the neighbourhood of Ziph. It is perhaps too bold to assert that no wood can ever have existed, and it seems best to understand Chôreshas a quasi-proper name for a district overgrown with brushwood.