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(Heb. Netsib', ðְöַéá , fixed, or a garrison [as in 1Sa_10:5; 1Sa_13:3-4; 1 Samuel 1 Clhron. 11:6]; Sept. Íáóßâ , v. r. Íåóåßâ ), a city in the Shephelah or maritime plain of Judah; mentioned between Ashnah and Keilah (Jos_15:43), in the group in the south-western part of the hilly region (Keil, Comment. ad loc.). Eusebius and Jerome give it the same name ( Íáóßâ , Nazib), and place it at the ninth (Jerome, seventh) mile from Eleutheropolis towards Hebron (Onomast. s.v. Neesib). It is doubtless the present Beit- Nusib, situated on a rising ground, at the edge of the plain and mountain tract, two and a half hours from Beit-Jebrin towards Hebron (Robinson, Bib. Res. 2:343 sq., 404; 3:12; Schwarz, Palest. p. 104). It has ruins of considerable extent, especially a massive tower sixty feet square, with the foundations of another great fabric, and broken columns and large building-stones (Porter, Hand-book, p. 280). Tobler, however, describes it as “an insignificant cupola with a few ruins” (Dritte Wanderung, p. 150).