Genesis 10:30 names it as an eastern hill-country of Arabia where the Beney Yaktan (Joktanites) lived, "from Mesha as far as Sephara". The two named towns are probably Maushid and Shehr, between Mecca and Medinah on the Persian Gulf.
Once more we have an instance of a Yisra-Eli tribal list that has nothing whatever to do with the Beney Yisra-El, nor even with Kena'an (Canaan), but which finds its way into the text because of the broader needs of the Redactor in creating a national identity.
The name is written as written as Meysha in 1 Chronicles 8:9 - see also under Tsevo'im.
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