Lasha

Lasha appears once in Scripture as the eastern boundary marker for the original Canaanite homeland in the Table of Nations: "And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha" (Genesis 10:19). The name fixes the southeastern frontier of pre-Israelite Canaan, beyond the doomed cities of the Plain. Traditional Jewish identification (preserved by Jerome and the Targums) places Lasha at Callirrhoe, a hot-springs resort east of the Dead Sea visited by Herod the Great in his last illness, though the exact site remains uncertain.