in the border of his inheritance i.e. within the district allotted to him, Joshua 19:49.

Timnath-heres An early tradition, mentioned by Eusebius (Onom. Sacr.261, 33) and Jerome, pointed out the tomb of Joshua at Thamna, a fortified place of some importance in Maccabaean and Roman times (1Ma 9:50; Jos., Ant.xiv. 11, 2, Wariv. 8, 1), which, from the topographical notices of Josephus ll. cc., may be identified with the modern Tibneh, about 10 m. N.W. of Beth-el, in the Central Highlands. It is not unlikely that this was Timnath-ḥeres; remarkable tombs are still to be seen on the N. slope of the hill to the S.W. of the town. A later, mediaeval, tradition fixes the site at Hâris, about 9 m. S.W. of Shechem (Nâblus). Timnath-ḥeres, lit. -(sacred) territory of the Sun" (cf. Mount Heres i. 35, Beth-shemesh), is written Timnath-seraḥ in Joshua 19:50; Joshua 24:30, and by Syr. and Vulgate here, perhaps to avoid idolatrous associations; cf. Isaiah 19:18, where ḥeres-sun" has been changed to heres-destruction."

Gaash has not been identified; 2 Samuel 23:30 = 1 Chronicles 11:32 mention -the wadis of G."

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