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Jarmuth

Meaning: height

The name of two biblical places…

  1. Jarmuth, a town in the plain of Judah

    Joshua 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 northeast of Beit-Jibrin.

  2. A Levitical city of the tribe of Issachar (Joshua 21:29), supposed by some to be the Ramah of Samuel (1 Samuel 19:22).

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