Kartah

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Kartah . A city of Zebulun (  Joshua 21:34 ); not mentioned in the parallel passage,   1 Chronicles 6:77 . The site is unknown. It might be for Kattath by a clerical error.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City in Zebulun, given to the Levites.  Joshua 21:34 . It is not mentioned in the list in  1 Chronicles 6 , and is not identified.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Kar'tah. (City). A town of Zebulun, allotted to the Merarite Levites.  Joshua 21:34.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 21:34Levitical Cities

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 21:34 Judges 1:30

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A town of Zebulnn, assigned to the Merarite Levites ( Joshua 21:34).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Kartah', קִרְתָּה , City; Sept. Καρθάν v. r. Κάδης ), a town in the tribe of Zebulon, assigned, with its suburbs, as one of the places of residence for the Levites of the family of Merari ( Joshua 21:34). It is there mentioned between Jokneam and Dimnah, the fourth city named being Nahalal; but the parallel passage ( 1 Chronicles 6:77) gives but two cities, and these different, namely, Rimmon and Tabor, the first of these being probably a preferable reading for Dimnah, and the latter a collective for two others, Jokneam being in the same connection ( 1 Chronicles 6:68) separately attributed to the Kohathites along with other places on Mt. Ephraim, near which it lay. Kartah is doubtless identical with the KATTATH elsewhere spoken of in the same association ( Joshua 19:15). Van de Velde suggests (Memoir, p. 327) that it is possibly the same with elHarte, a village with traces of antiquity on the banks of the Kishon," not very far from its junction with wady Melek; the ruins being on the tell Harteyeh, on the opposite side of the river (Narrative, i, 289).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kar´ta ( קרתּה , ḳartāh ): A city in the territory of Zebulun, assigned to the Levites (  Joshua 21:34 ). It is not identified. Possibly it is a variant of Kattath , or of Kartan (which see).