Bible Dictionary

Lehi

A jawbone, a place in the tribe of Judah where Samson achieved a victory over the Philistines (Judg. 15:9, 14, 16), slaying a thousand of them with the jawbone of an ass. The words in 15:19, “a hollo…

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

A jawbone, a place in the tribe of Judah where Samson achieved a victory over the Philistines (Judg. 15:9, 14, 16), slaying a thousand of them with the jawbone of an ass.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(jaw bone), a place in Judah, probably on the confines of the Philistines’ country, between it and the cliff Etam; the scene of Samson’s well-known exploit with the jaw bone. (Judges 15:9,14,19) It may perhaps be identified with Beit-Likiyeh, a village about two miles below the upper Beth-horon.

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

LE'HI (Jawbone), a place in Judah, between the Philistine frontier and the cliff of Etam, where Samson slew the Philistines. ; possibly Beit Likia, or 'Ayun Kara.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

jawbone