in Ancient Geography, a town of Samaria; Upper and Nether, and both in the tribe of Ephraim, built by Shera grand-daughter of Ephraim, 1 Chron. viii. 24, both which were restored by Solomon, after falling to decay, 1 Kings ix. 17, and 2 Chron. viii. 5. Their distance was almost the whole breadth of the tribe of Ephraim, the Upper being in the north, the Nether in the south, of that tribe, Joshua xvi. We know more of the Nether than of the Upper; it was situated on a mountain, and therefore Josephus and Jerome mention going up or ascending; and it stood on the public road to Lydda and Caesarea, distant an hundred stadia, or twelve miles, from Jerusalem: and on account of this vicinity, some allot it to the tribe of Benjamin.