(lying, false)

1. A city in the lowlands of Judah, named with Keilah and Mareshah (Joshua 15:44; Micah 1:14). It is probably the same with Chezib and Chozeba.
2. A town belonging to Asher (Joshua 19:29), from which the Canaanites were not expelled (Judges 1:31), afterwards Ecdippa. It is now es-Zib, on the seashore, 2h. 20m. north of Acre.