Madmannah

Madmannah ("dung-heap" or "place of dung") was a town in the western Negev that appears in the lists of Simeon's inheritance within the larger territory of Judah (Joshua 15:31, 1 Chronicles 2:49). It lay in the cluster of small Simeonite settlements that included Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah, Hormah, and Ziklag — the chain of frontier outposts on Judah's southern border. The Chronicler's genealogy of Caleb traces Madmannah to a clan founder named Shaaph "the father of Madmannah," tying the town's settlement back to the Calebite branch of Judah.