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The term "Shephelah" means "lowland" and appears in the Hebrew Bible 20 times. It is a long rectangular area of soft limestone (Eocene) stretching from Gezer in the north to just north of Beersheba in the south. It is about 27 mi. [43 km.] long and 10 mi [16 km.] wide. In a sense, it is the area of foothills that separate the Philistine Plain to the west from the Hill Country of Judah to the east — a "buffer zone."
See the Zondervan NIV Atlas pp. 52-54 for a detailed description.
