Hadashah

Hadashah ("new") was a small Shephelah town in Judah's tribal inheritance named in Joshua 15:37 at the head of the second lowland district catalog: "Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad." The Talmud (Mishnah Eruvin 5:6) mentions Hadashah as a particularly small settlement, suggesting it remained tiny even by the late Second Temple period. The town appears only in this single boundary list and is uncertain in location, though it lay somewhere in the inner Shephelah between the central highlands and the Philistine coastal plain near Lachish.