Jarmuth

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jarmuth
     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).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Jarmuth, fearing, or seeing, or throwing down, death