H3798 H3798
Kitlish; a city in the Shephelah region assigned to the tribe of Judah
This place name appears in Joshua 15:40, in the list of Judahite cities in the lowland district. Kitlish's exact location is unknown, though it stood somewhere in the western foothills between the coastal plain and Judean highlands. The city name is preserved in various forms across ancient versions (LXX: Kathaleis, Maachos), but no modern site has been definitively identified. It was one of many smaller settlements in Judah's fertile agricultural region.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The name of a town in Judah's Shephelah, listed among the inheritance allocations. Joshua 15 systematically catalogues cities by region, with Kitlish appearing among southern lowland settlements. Spanish 'Quitlis' and the variant spellings preserve the place name across languages. The city's obscurity—no biblical narrative mentions it and its site remains unknown—illustrates how many settlements recorded in allotment lists left no other historical trace. 1×
AR["وَ-كِتْليشُ"]·ben["এবং-কিত্লীশ"]·DE["und-Kitlish"]·EN["and-Kitlish"]·FR["et-Kitlish"]·heb["ו-כתליש"]·HI["और-कित्लीश"]·ID["dan-Kitlis"]·IT["e-Kitlish"]·jav["lan-Kitlis"]·KO["그리고-깃리스"]·PT["e-Kitlish"]·RU["и-Китлиш"]·ES["y-Quitlis"]·SW["na-Kitlishi"]·TR["ve-Kitliş"]·urd["اور-کتلیش"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† כִּתְלִישׁ n.pr.loc. a city of Judah Jos 15:40, site unknown; 𝔊B Μααχως, A Χαθλως, 𝔊L Καθαλεις.