Chitlish

Chitlish was a Shephelah town in Judah's tribal inheritance, named in Joshua 15:40 in the catalog of sixteen lowland cities alongside Cabbon, Lahmam, and Gederoth. The town appears only in this single boundary list and is uncertain in location. It lay somewhere in the inner Shephelah between the central highlands and the Philistine coastal plain. The Hebrew root may suggest "small" or "scanty" — the town was apparently never a substantial settlement in either biblical narrative or later archaeological record.