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(Hebrews Kozeba´, ëֹּæֵáָà , lying; Sept. ×ùæçâÜ , Vulg. mendacium), a place whose inhabitants ("men of Chozeba") are named (1Ch_4:22) among the descendants of Shelah, the son of Judah. The name is sufficiently like the CHEZIB (and especially the reading of the Samaritan Codex of that name, ëæáä ) where Shelah was born (Gen_38:5) to suggest that the two refer to the same place; that, namely, elsewhere (Jos_15:44) called ACHZIB SEE ACHZIB (q.v.) in Judah.
Chozeba (ADDENDUM):
(1Ch_4:22) is thought by Lieutenant Conder (Tent-Work, 2:336) to be possibly the ruin Kueziba, north-east of Hebron (Quar. Report of "Pal. Explor. Fund," January 1881, page 51); but it is not necessary to distinguish the place from Chezib or Achzib..