ESCHOL (eskol «grape cluster»). — Aramaic, brother of MAMBRE, one of the allies of ABRAM who followed him in the raid against CHODORLAHOMOR, king of Elam (Gen. 14, 13-24).
The «valley of E.» (Vulg. *torrens botri*), given the aforementioned kinship with MAMBRE, is to be sought in the vicinity of Hebron (Gen. 13, 18), a little to the north (Num. 13, 23 sq.). Today it is the valley el-Haskeh. The Israelite scouts found there the wonderful grapes which they brought as proof of the fertility of the Promised Land (Num. 13, 24 sq.; 32, 9; Deut. 1, 24).
BIBL.: E. Mader, *Les fouilles allemandes au Râmet el-Kha- li, in Revue biblique*, 37 (1930), pp. 217-197; R.-M. Abel, *Géographie de la Palestine*, I, Paris 1933, p. 463 sq.; F. Zorell, *Lexicon hebraicum*, I, Rome 1940, p. 85; A. Clamer, *Les Nombres* (La Sainte Bible ed. L. Pirot, 2), Paris 1946, p. 320.