(birth, race), a city of Judah, one of those which lay in the district of “the south” (Joshua 15:26; 19:2). In the latter tribe it remained at any rate until the reign of David (1 Chronicles 4:28), but by the time of the captivity it seems to have come back into the hands of Judah, by whom it was reinhabited after the captivity (Nehemiah 11:26). It may be placed at el-Milh, which is about 4 English miles from Tell Arad, 17 or 18 from Hebron, and 9 or 10 due east of Beer-sheba.