Jarmuth

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Jarmuth 1. A royal city of the Canaanites (  Joshua 10:3 etc.), in the Shephçlab, assigned to Judah (  Joshua 15:35 ). It is probably identical with ‘Jermucha’ of the Onomasticon , 10 Roman miles from Elentheropolis, on the Jerusalem road. This is now Khirbet Yarmûk , between Wâdy es-Sarûr and Wâdy es-Sant , about 8 miles N. of Beit Jibrîn . 2. A city in Issachar, allotted to the Gershonite Levites (  Joshua 21:29 , LXX [Note: Septuagint.] B Remmath ). It corresponds to Ramoth in   1 Chronicles 6:73 , and Remeth appears in   Joshua 19:21 among the cities of Issachar. Guthe suggests er-Râmeh , about 11 miles S. W. of Jenîn , but this is uncertain.

W. Ewing.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. A town in the Shephelah or low hills (not "the plain ") of Judah ( Joshua 15:35). Piram its king was one of the five confederated to punish Gibeon for submitting to Joshua ( Joshua 10:3;  Joshua 10:5); routed at Beth-horon; executed at Makkedah ( Joshua 10:23). Occupied by children of Judah on the return from Babylon ( Nehemiah 11:29). Now Yarmuk, with a hill near, Tell Urmud.

2. A city of Issachar, assigned to the Gershonite Levites. ( Joshua 21:29). REMETH in  Joshua 19:20; RAMOTH in  1 Chronicles 6:73. Both are modifications of the same root as Jarmuth.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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Bibliography Information Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Jarmuth'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/j/jarmuth.html. 1897.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Jar'muth. (High).

1. 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;  Joshua 10:5, and who were routed at Beth-horon, and put to death, by Joshua at Makkedah.  Joshua 10:33. Its site is probably the modern Yarmuk .

2. A city of Issachar allotted, with its suburbs, to the Gershonite Levites.  Joshua 21:29.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. City of Judah, taken from the Amorites by Joshua.  Joshua 10:3,5,23;  Joshua 12:11;  Joshua 15:35;  Nehemiah 11:29 . Identified with el Yarmuk, 31 42' N, 34 58' E .

2. City of Issachar, allotted to the Levites.  Joshua 21:29 . Probably the same as REMETH in  Joshua 19:21 , and RAMOTH in  1 Chronicles 6:73 . Not identified.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 10:1 Joshua 12:11 Joshua 15:33 15:35 Nehemiah 11:29 2 Joshua 21:29 Joshua 19:21 1 Chronicles 6:58

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

JARMUTH or Jaramoth

This was one of the cities of Judah, which lay in the way to Jerusalem. Joshua, in his battles, killed the king of Jarmuth. ( Joshua 10:5)

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Yarmuth', יִרְמוּת , Height; Sept. Ι᾿Εριμούθ ), the name of two places.

1. A town in the plain of Judah ( Joshua 15:35), inhabited after the Babylonian captivity ( Nehemiah 11:29); originally the seat of one of the Canaanitish kings, (See Piram) defeated by Joshua ( Joshua 10:3;  Joshua 10:5;  Joshua 10:23;  Joshua 12:11;  Joshua 15:35). Eusebius (Onomast. s.v. Ι᾿Εριμοῦς , also Ι᾿Ερμοχώς ) sets down Jarmucha or Jermus as ten Roman miles from Eleutheropolis towards Jerusalem, but elsewhere Jarmuth (s.v. Ι᾿Εριμούθ , doubtless the same place) less correctly at four miles' distance, although in the neighborhood of Eshtaol, which is ten miles from Eleutheropolis. Dr. Robinson (Researches, 2, 344) identified the site as that of Yarmuk, a village about seven miles north-east of Beit-Jibrin (Schwarz, Palest. p. 85). As the name implies; it is situated on a ridge (tell Ermudor Armuth, a different pronunciation for Yarmuth: Van de Velde, Narrative, 2, 193). It is a small and poor place, but contains a few traces, in its hewn stones and ruins, of former strength and greatness (Porter, Handbook. p. 281; Van de Velde, Mienzoir, p. 324; Tobler, Dritte Wanderung, p. 120, 462)..

2. A Levitical city in the tribe of Issachar ( Joshua 21:29), elsewhere called Remeth '''''Ῥ''''' ( Joshua 19:21) and RAMOTH ( 1 Chronicles 6:73). Schwarz (Palest. p. 157) supposes it was the Ramah of Samuel ( 1 Samuel 19:22), which he identifies with the modern village of Rameh, north-west of Shechem; but this place lies within the territory of Manasseh. The associated names seem to indicate a locality on the eastern edge of the plain of Esdraelon. (See Reireth).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jar´muth ( ירמוּת , yarmūth ̌ :

(1) A city of the Canaanites in the Shephelah ( Joshua 15:35 ) of Judah whose "king," Piram, joined the league of the "five kings" against Joshua ( Joshua 10:3-5 ), was defeated at Gibeon and slain at Makkedah ( Joshua 10:23 ). One of the 31 "kings" defeated in Joshua' s campaign ( Joshua 12:11 ). In  Joshua 15:35 it is mentioned in conjunction with Adullam, Socoh and Azekah, and in   Nehemiah 11:29 with Zorah, Zanoah and Adullam. Cheyne ( Encyclopedia Biblica ) suggests that the "Maroth" of  Micah 1:12 may be a copyist's error for Jarmuth. In Eusebius, Onomasticon ( OS 2 132 31; 266 38) mention is made of a Ἰερμοχώς , Iermochō̇s , or Jermucha, 10 Roman miles Northeast of Eleutheropolis ( Beit Jibrı̂n ), The site of this once important place is Khirbet el Yarmūk , a ruin, with many old walls and cisterns, on the top of a hill 1,465 ft. above sealevel. It is nearly 2 miles Northwest of Beit Nattı̂f , from which it is visible, and 8 1/2 miles, as measured on map, N.N.E. of Beit Jibrı̂n . Compare PEF , III, 128, Sh Xviii .

(2) A city of Issachar belonging to the "children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites" ( Joshua 21:29 ); in the duplicate list in  1 Chronicles 6:73 we have Ramoth, while in the Septuagint version of   Joshua 21:29 we have, in different Vss , Rhemmāth or Iermō̇th . In  Joshua 19:21 "Remeth" occurs (in Hebrew) in the lists of cities of Issachar; in the Septuagint Rhémmas or Rhamáth . The name was probably "Remeth" or "Ramoth," but the place has never been identified with any certainty. See Ramoth .