Gaash
ga.ash is a proper place name, appearing with a mount and nearby ravines or brooks.
The attested form is a proper place name: Joshua 24:30 and Judges 2:9 locate a burial north of Mount Gaash, while 2 Samuel 23:30 and 1 Chronicles 11:32 associate it with ravines or brooks.
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Place name in geographic descriptions · dominant
All four occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper. In Joshua 24:30 and Judges 2:9 the APB renders a location north of “mount Gaash”; in 2 Samuel 23:30 and 1 Chronicles 11:32 it renders people as being from the ravines or brooks of Gaash.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the name as “Gaash” in each verse, with “mount Gaash” in Joshua 24:30 and Judges 2:9 and ravines or brooks of Gaash in 2 Samuel 23:30 and 1 Chronicles 11:32. These phrases confirm the geographic setting rather than assign separate meanings.