("dashing down of the lion"). From kathath layish. A town of Judah in the shephelah or lower hills (Joshua 15:40). Now El Jilas. Traces of the "lion" abound on all sides; in the plains of Dan on the N. (Deuteronomy 33:22; Judges 14:5), in the uplands of Judah on the E. (Genesis 49:9; 1 Samuel 17:34), and in "the S.," the droughty land between Israel and Egypt (2 Samuel 23:20; Isaiah 30:6).