it is a wall; the company of a lioness
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
("dashing down of the lion"). From kathath layish. A town of Judah in the shephelah or lower hills (Jos_15:40). Now El Jilas. Traces of the "lion" abound on all sides; in the plains of Dan on the N. (Deu_33:22; Jdg_14:5), in the uplands of Judah on the E. (Gen_49:9; 1Sa_17:34), and in "the S.," the droughty land between Palestine and Egypt (2Sa_23:20; Isa_30:6).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Kith'lish. (man's wall). One of the towns of Judah, in the Shefelah, or lowland. Jos_15:40.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
kith?lish (כּתלישׁ, kithlı̄sh). See CHITLISH.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Kithlish
(Heb. Kithlish', כַּתְלישׁ, prob. for אַישׁ כְּתִל, a man's wall; Sept. Χαθαλείς v. r. Καθλώς ant Μααχώς,Vulg. Cethlis), a town in the valley or plain (Shephelah) of Judah, mentioned between Lahmam and Gederoth (Jos_15:40); evidently situated in the south-western group, possibly at the "mound and some foundations called Jelamneh" (Robinson, Researches, ii, 386), on wady el-Heroy, between Gaza and Lachish (Van de Velde, Map). A writer in Fairbairn's Dictionary, s.v., proposes the ruined site el-Jilas given by Smith (in Robinson's Res. 3, Appendix, p. 119) in this vicinity; but this is not laid down on any map, if, indeed, it be not the same place as the above. The derivation proposed by the same writer for the name Kithlish, from כָּתִת, to crush, and לִיַשׁ, a lion, as if it were the haunt of that animal, is fanciful, and unwarranted by any allusion of the kind in the text; the form, moreover, would then have been כּתְּלַישׁ.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.