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1. In Judah, in the shephelah or plain country of Judah on the western borderland toward the Philistines and the sea; the Chezib of ; ; , where the meaning of the name ("a lie") is alluded to.
2. In Asher, but, like Accho and Sidon, never wrested from the aboriginal Phoenicians (). Ten miles N. of Acre, on the Mediterranean; considered on the return from Babylon the northernmost boundary of the Holy Land. Now Es-zib.