Dabbesheth

Dabbesheth ("hump" or "lump") was a boundary point on the western frontier of Zebulun's tribal inheritance named in Joshua 19:11: "And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam." The name preserves the topographical setting — a settlement on a rounded hill ("hump") rising from the coastal plain. The site is generally identified with Tell esh-Shammam in the western Jezreel Valley near Megiddo, where Iron Age occupation layers preserve the small Zebulonite frontier settlement.