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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ASHNAH.Two unknown sites of towns in Judah (Jos_15:33; Jos_15:43).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Two cities of Judah, both in the shephelah or low hills.
1. Between Zorea and Zanoah, N.W. of Jerusalem, Asena (Jos_15:33).
2. Between Jiphtah and Nezib, S.W. of Jerusalem (Jos_15:43), now Esna.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ash'nah. The name of two cities, both in the Shefelah, or lowlands of Judah:
(1) named between Zoreah and Zanoah, and therefore, probably northwest of Jerusalem, Jos_15:33, and
(2) between Jiptah and Nezib, and therefore, to the southwest of Jerusalem. Jos_15:43. Each, according, to Robinson's map (1857), would be about 16 miles from Jerusalem.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ash?na (אשׁנה, 'ashnāh): Two sites, (1) Jos_15:33, a site in the lowlands of Judah, probably near Estaol and Zorah. The small ruin Aslin between those two places may retain an echo of the old name; (2) Jos_15:43 an unknown site farther south.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ashnah
(Heb. Ashnah', אִשְׁנָה, fortified, otherwise bright; Sept. Α᾿σνά), the name of two cities, both in the "plain" of the tribe of Judah.
1. One mentioned between Zorah and Zanoah (Jos_15:33), apparently in the region north of Eleutheropolis and west of Jerusalem (see Keil, Comment. in loc.), and near the boundary-line, almost within the territory afterward assigned to Dan (see Jos_19:41), and probably near Beth-Shemesh, possibly at the site of the modern "large village Deir Aban" (Robinson, Researches, new ed. iii 154). It is probably the Asan (Α᾿σάν) or Bethasan (Θηβασά) placed I y Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v.) at 15 or 16 Roman miles west of Jerusalem.
2. Another town, certainly in Judah, mentioned between Jiphtah and Nezib (Jos_15:43); apparently in the region immediately south and east of Eleutheropolis (comp. Keil, Comment. in loc.), probably not very far from this last; possibly the present Beit Alanm, a ruined village on a low mound (Robinson, Researches. ii, 403). Eusebius and Jerome also speak of an Asna (Α᾿σνά, Onomast. s.v.), but without any particulars.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.