Bible Dictionary

Ahlab

Fatness, a town of Asher lying within the unconquered Phoenician border (Judg. 1:31), north-west of the Sea of Galilee; commonly identified with Giscala, now el-Jish.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

Fatness, a town of Asher lying within the unconquered Phoenician border (Judg. 1:31), north-west of the Sea of Galilee; commonly identified with Giscala, now el-Jish.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(fertile), a city of Asher from which the Canaanites were not driven out. (Judges 1:31)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

AH'LAB (fatness, fertility), a town in Asher held by the Canaanites, Jud 1:31; probably the place known later as Gash Halab or Chaleb, and which Robinson locates at el-Jish, near Safed, north-west of the Sea of Galilee.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

made of milk, or of fat; brother of the heart