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(Heb. id òִùׁ Ó -G, a shaking or earthquake; Sept. Ãááñ ÃÜ ), a "bill" (rather mount ø í ) among the mountains of Ephraim, near Timnath-serah, on the north side of which Joshua was buried (Jos_24:30; Sept. Ãáëá ; Jdg_2:9). Hence "the brooks of Gaash," i.e., the valleys or watercourses çִìַéí -n, wadys, Sept. Íá÷á … ñ Íá÷á ) around the mountain, which were the native place of Hiddai or Hurai, one of David's warriors (2Sa_23:30; 1Ch_11:32). Eusebius and Jerome merely state that Joshua's tomb was still a remarkable monument near Timnah in their day (Onomast. s.v. Ãááó , Gaas). SEE JOSHUA. If Timnath (q.v.) be the modern Tibnah, then Matthew Gaash is probablthe hill full of sepulchral caverns now facing it on the south. SEE EPHIAIM, MT.