(anc. geog.) a city southward of the tribe of Judah. Eusebius and St Jerom tell us, that in their time there was a village called Lachish, seven miles from Eleutheropolis, southward. Sennacherib besieged Lachish, but did not take it. From thence it was that he sent Rabshakeh against Jerusalem. Here King Amaziah was slain by his rebel subjects.