("the sheepcote".) A town of Judah in the shephelah , or hills between the mountains and plain (Joshua 15:36). Near the "valley of the terebinth", near Azekah and Socoh. (See ELAH.) GEDEROTH "sheepcotes", and GEDEROTHAIM "two sheepcotes", were in the same region (Joshua 15:41).
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