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(Hebrews Mekonah', îֲëֹðָä , a base, as in 1Ki_7:27, etc.; Sept. in most editions omits, but v. r. Ìá÷íÜ and Ìáâíή , Vulg. Mochona), a town in the southern part of the tribe of Judah, and inhabited after the exile (Neh_11:28). From its being coupled (in that passage) with Ziklag,we should infer that it was situated far to the south, while the mention of the” daughter towns” ( áְּðåֹú , AV. “villages”) dependent on it, seem to show that it was a place of some magnitude. Reland (Palest. p. 892) thinks it may be identical with Mechanum, a village located by Jerome between Eleutheropolis and Jerusalem, eight miles from the former (Onomast. s.v. Bethmacha). It seems strange that Jerome should speak of a village south of Jerusalem when describing Beth-maachah, which lay at the northern extremity of Palestine (2Sa_20:14). The only unappropriated site at about the required distance is Jerash, not far north- east of Beit Nettif (Robinson, Researches, 2:342, note).