a.shan is used as a proper name in lists of cities and their villages.

The attested form is consistently a proper noun in enumerations of cities: it occurs among named places in Joshua 15:42, Joshua 19:7, and 1 Chronicles 4:32; 1 Chronicles 6:44 supplies the form in a verse whose APB wording does not visibly retain it.

1. Proper name in city lists · dominant

   All supplied tokens are tagged Noun · Proper. In Joshua 15:42 the APB renders a list ending “Libnah, Ether, and Ashan,” while Joshua 19:7 and 1 Chronicles 4:32 place it among named cities, the latter calling them “five cities”; in 1 Chronicles 6:44 the supplied form is present although the APB renders a genealogy instead.

   Joshua 15:42Joshua 19:71 Chronicles 4:321 Chronicles 6:44

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents “Ashan” in the city lists of Joshua 15:42, Joshua 19:7, and 1 Chronicles 4:32. In 1 Chronicles 6:44, the supplied proper-noun form is not visibly represented in the APB's genealogical rendering.