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(Hebrews Kezib´, ëְּæַéá , false; Sept. ×áóâß ), the birth-place of Shelah, Judah's youngest son by the daughter of Shuah (Gen_38:5); probably the same with CHOZEBA (1Ch_4:22), and also the ACHZIB SEE ACHZIB (q.v.) of later times (Jos_15:44). Schwarz (Palest. p. 201) seems to confound it with the more northern city Achzib (Jos_19:29), in referring to a Talmudical notice of "the river of Chezib;" an error into which also Grotius was led from the reading ( Êåæßâ ) of the Sept. at Jos_15:44. Jerome, however (Quaest. Hebr. in loc.), regards the name as an appellation merely (so Aquila, in Montfaucon's ed. of Origen's Hexapla, De la Rue's Orig. Opp. 5:287), indicating that this was the last of Bathshuah's sons.