(point or thorn)

1. A town in the mountain district of Judah (Joshua 15:48 only). It probably lay some eight or ten miles south of Hebron.
2. A place in Mount Ephraim, the residence and burial-place of Tola the judge (Judges 10:1-2). Perhaps Samur, half-way between Samaria and Jenin.
3. A Kohathite, son of Micah or Michal, the first-born of Uzziel (1 Chronicles 24:24)