HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3686
כְּסִיל
ke.sil — Chesil
§ Chesil = "foolish" a town in the extreme south of Judah and 15 miles southwest of Beersheba; maybe same as be.tul (בְּתוּל "Bethul" H1329)
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Chesil
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Ungodly, a town in the south of Judah (Josh. 15:30); probably the same as Bethul (19:4) and Bethuel (1 Chr. 4:30); now Khelasa.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.