Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Hiding-place, a town in the northern border of Ephraim and Manasseh, and not far west of Jordan (Josh. 16:6; 17:7).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(hiding-place), a place which formed one of the landmarks of the boundary of the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh on the western side of Jordan. (Joshua 17:7) The position of the place must be somewhere on the east of and not far distant from Shechem.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
),a town facing Shechem, on the borders of Ephraim and Manasseh. Josh 16:6; Josh 17:7. The Pal. Memoirs suggest Mukhnab, in the plain of Mukhnab, east of Shechem, as its site.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
the gift or death of a striker