(anc. geog.), mountains of Samaria, stretching out from west to east, on the confines of the half tribe of Manasseh, and of the tribe of Issachar; Gilchrist, and to the south part of the valley of Jezreel, beginning westward at the city of Jezreel, situated at the foot of these mountains, reaching almost quite to the Jordan, lying at the distance of six miles from Scythopolis. Famous for the death of Saul and his son Jonathan, and the defeat of the Israelites by the Philistines.