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For this town Tristram proposes (Bible Places, page 40) Khurbet Mesheifrefeh, near Gaza, on the ground that "the word is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew;" and a writer in the Quar. Statement of the "Pal. Explor. Fund" (January 1881, page 53) proposes "the large ruin Kutlaneh, south of Gezer, as the words are from similar roots." But both these identifications are very precarious.