Gath-Rimmon

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Gath-Rimmon 1 . A city in Dan, near Jebud and Bene-herak (  Joshua 19:45 ), assigned to the Kohathites (  Joshua 21:24 ), and reckoned (  1 Chronicles 6:69 ) to Ephraim. It is unidentified. 2 . A city of Manasseh, assigned to the Kohathites (  Joshua 21:25 ). LXX [Note: Septuagint.] has Iebatha (B), or Baithsa (A), while   1 Chronicles 6:70 has Bileam = Ibleam (wh. see). The position of the town is not indicated, so in this confusion no identification is possible.

W. Ewing.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Another city of the same name in Manasseh, west of the Jordan ( Joshua 21:25 ), called also Bileam ( 1 Chronicles 6:70 ).

Copyright Statement These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., DD Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography Information Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Gath-Rimmon'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/g/gath-rimmon.html. 1897.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("winepress of the pomegranates".)

1. A city of Dan, given to the Levites ( Joshua 19:45;  Joshua 21:24;  1 Chronicles 6:69). On the Philistine plain.

2. A town of Manasseh, W. of Jordan, assigned to the Levites ( Joshua 21:25). But Bileam (i.e. Ibleam,  Joshua 17:11) in  1 Chronicles 6:70, which is probably the true reading in Joshua, the copyist's eye catching "Gath-rimmon" in the previous verse.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 19:45 Joshua 21:24 1 Chronicles 6:69  1 Chronicles 6:69 Joshua 21:25  1 Chronicles 6:70 1 Chronicles 6:24Ibleam

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Gath-Rimmon', גִּת 9 רַמּוֹן , Press Of the Pomegranate; Sept. Γεθρεμμών , Vulgate Gethremmon), a town in the tribe of Dan ( Joshua 19:45), and a Levitical city ( Joshua 21:24;  1 Chronicles 6:69). In the time of Eusebius and Jerome it was a very large village, "twelve miles from Diospolis as you go hence to Eleutheropolis" (Onosast. s.v. Γεθρεμμών , Gethreasmon); but the same writers also mention a Gath five Raoman miles north of Eleutberopolis towards Diospolis (ib. s.v. Γέθ , Geth). Dr. Robinson thinks them to be one place, and that the site is found in Deir Dubbasn, where are some remarkable excavations (Researches , 2:421). In that case, however, it could not have lain within the territory of Dan, which passed at a point between the two positions. The firstmentioned distance would correspond to that of the modern site Rafat, cometaining wide- spread ruins (Robinson, Researches, 3:20).

The Gath-rimmon mentioned in  Joshua 21:25 as being in the tribe of Manasseh, Rausner (Palistina, page 173) supposes to be another Levitical city; but Winer (Realw Ö Rterbuch, s.v. Gath) ascribes its origin to,a maistake of the transcriber, who repeated the word from the preceding Verse. The Sept. has Ι᾿Εβαθά (v.r. Βαιθσά ), probably intended for the IBLEAM (See Ibleam) (q.v.) of  Joshua 17:11.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

gath - rim´un ( גּ ת רמּון , gath rimmōn , "winepress of Rimmon"):

(1) A city in the territory of Dan named with Bene-berak and Me-jarkon, in the plain not far from Joppa ( Joshua 19:45 ), assigned to the Kohathite Levites ( Joshua 21:24 ), reckoned to Ephraim in  1 Chronicles 6:69 . Eusebius, Onomasticon locates it 12 miles from Eleutheropolis on the way to Diospolis. This, however, is too far to the South. More probably it is identical with the "Gath" which Eusebius, Onomasticon places between Antipatris and Jamnia. It is not identified.

(2) A town in the territory of Manasseh, West of Jordan, given to the Levites ( Joshua 21:25 ). There is nothing to indicate the position of the place, and there is much confusion in the writing of the name: Septuagint Codex Alexandrinus, "Baithsa"; Codex Vaticanus, "Jebatha." In  1 Chronicles 6:70 it is replaced by "Bileam," i.e. Ibleam (which see).