esh.ta.ol is a named place appearing in boundary lists and in accounts involving Zorah and the Danites.

The term is consistently a proper place name. It occurs in territorial and boundary descriptions with Zorah, and it marks the setting or point of origin, return, and burial in narratives involving Danite people.

1. A named locality in territorial and narrative settings · dominant

   The supplied morphology identifies the form as a proper noun throughout. In Joshua 15:33 the APB renders it within a list in the Shephelah, and in Joshua 19:41 it appears in the boundary of an inheritance with Zorah and Ir-shemesh. In Judges 13:25, Judges 16:31, Judges 18:11, and Judges 18:2, the APB places events, burial, and Danite departures in relation to Zorah and this locality.

   Joshua 15:33Joshua 19:41Judges 13:25Judges 16:31Judges 18:11Judges 18:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB presents the term as “Eshtaol,” usually alongside Zorah in lists, boundary statements, and narrative location phrases. These renderings confirm the verse-level place reference rather than supplying a separate lexical definition.