Haeleph

Haeleph ("the ox") was one of the twelve cities of the tribe of Benjamin named in Joshua 18:28 in the catalog of the tribal allotment: "And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages." (The KJV reads "Eleph" without the article "Ha-".) The town appears only in this single boundary list and is uncertain in location. It lay in the central Benjaminite highlands near Jerusalem and Zelah, possibly identified with one of the small tells in the modern village area between Gibeah and Jerusalem.