Debir
    oracle town; sanctuary. (1.) One of the eleven cities to the
    west of Hebron, in the highlands of Judah (Josh. 15:49; Judg.
    1:11-15). It was originally one of the towns of the Anakim
    (Josh. 15:15), and was also called Kirjath-sepher (q.v.) and
    Kirjath-sannah (49). Caleb, who had conquered and taken
    possession of the town and district of Hebron (Josh. 14:6-15),
    offered the hand of his daughter to any one who would
    successfully lead a party against Debir. Othniel, his younger
    brother (Judg. 1:13; 3:9), achieved the conquest, and gained
    Achsah as his wife. She was not satisfied with the portion her
    father gave her, and as she was proceeding toward her new home,
    she "lighted from off her ass" and said to him, "Give me a
    blessing [i.e., a dowry]: for thou hast given me a south land"
    (Josh. 15:19, A.V.); or, as in the Revised Version, "Thou hast
    set me in the land of the south", i.e., in the Negeb, outside
    the rich valley of Hebron, in the dry and barren land. "Give me
    also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and
    the nether springs."

      Debir has been identified with the modern Edh-Dhaheriyeh,
    i.e., "the well on the ridge", to the south of Hebron.

      (2.) A place near the "valley of Achor" (Josh. 15:7), on the
    north boundary of Judah, between Jerusalem and Jericho.

      (3.) The king of Eglon, one of the five Canaanitish kings who
    were hanged by Joshua (Josh. 10:3, 23) after the victory at
    Gibeon. These kings fled and took refuge in a cave at Makkedah.
    Here they were kept confined till Joshua returned from the
    pursuit of their discomfited armies, when he caused them to be
    brought forth, and "Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged
    them on five trees" (26).



 Debir, an orator; a word