in Ancient Geography, a town of Judaea, originally under the protection of the Sidonians, and by them named Laish. It became the chief seat of Jeroboam's idolatry; and after the conquests of the Syrians, it became proverbial as the southern boundary of the Promised Land. Its site, a little to the north of Paneas, is supposed by Burckhardt to be marked by the ruins of a few habitations.