Gaash

Gaash is a foothill in the hill-country of Ephraim, named in three terse notices that anchor the burial of Joshua and the home region of one of David's mighty men.

The Mountain in Ephraim

Joshua is buried "in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash" (Jos 24:30). The notice is repeated almost verbatim in the parallel record, which calls the same site Timnath-heres: "And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash" (Jud 2:9). The two passages place Joshua's tomb on the same northern slope, fixing Gaash as the orienting landmark for his inheritance.

Brooks of Gaash

The wadis running off the mountain give the second use. Among David's thirty, the list names "Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash" (2Sa 23:30). The reference identifies one of the warriors by his home region rather than by tribe.