Place
Name meaning: fearing, or seeing, or throwing down, death (Hitchcock)
Height. (1.) A town in the plain of Judah (Josh. 15:35), originally the residence of one of the Canaanitish kings (10:3, 5, 23). It has been identified with the modern Yarmuk, a village about 7 miles north-east of Beit-Jibrin.
(2.) A Levitical city of the tribe of Issachar (Josh. 21:29), supposed by some to be the Ramah of Samuel (1 Sam. 19:22).
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
(high).
A town in the low country of Judah. (Joshua 16:35) Its king, Piram, was one of the five who conspired. to punish Gibeon for having made alliance with Israel, (Joshua 10:3,5) and who were routed at Beth-horon and put to death by Joshua at Makkedah. ver. 33. Its site is probably the modern Yarmuk.
A city of Issachar allotted with its suburbs to the Gershonite Levites. (Joshua 21:29)
Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain
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