•
II
.
גַּת
S
1660, 1661, 1662, 1667
TWOT
841a
GK
1780, 1781, 1782
n.pr.loc.
(
3)
—Philistine city
Ö
Γεθ
,
É
Geth
,
Jos
Ant. vi. 12, 2 etc.,
Γιττα
(ed. Niese), exact site unknown
(
v. GASm
Geog. 194 ff.), named with Gaza and Ashdod
Jos 11:22
as home of remaining
˓Anaḳim
; named with Ashdod, Gaza,
Ashḳelon
and
˓Eḳron
1 S 6:1
7; with
Ashḳelon
1 S 1:2
0; with
Ashḳelon
, Yabne and Ashdod
2 Ch 26:6
;
מֵעֶקְרֹון וְעַד־גַּת 1 S 7:1 4, cf. 17:52b and also v 52a (read גַּת for
גַּיְא
Ö
We D
r); called
גַּת פְּלִשְׁתִּים
Am 6:
2; built up by Rehoboam, according to
2 Ch 11:8
; taken by Hazael
2 K 12:18
; also
1 S 5:8
;
17:4
,
23
(of Goliath),
cf.
2 S 21:2
0,
22
=
1 Ch 20:
6,
8
;
1 S 21:11
,
13
;
27:2
,
3
,
4
,
11 2 S 15:18 1 K 2:39
(×2),
40
,
41
ψ 56:1
Mi 1:1
0,
14 1 Ch 7:2
1;
8:13
, also
18:1
(but
||
אַמָּה מֶתֶג
2 S 8:
1; on change of this into reading in Ch
v. W
e);
c.
ה
loc
.,
גַּ˜תָּה
1 K 2:40
.
• גַּת הַחֵ˜פֶר S 1662 GK 1783 2 K 14:25 ( 3) n.pr.loc. home of Jonah;
גִָּ˜תּהֿ חֵ˜פֶר
Jos 19:1
3, perhaps mod.
El-Meshhed
,
c.
3
m.
E. of N. from Nazareth,
Rob
BR ii. 350 Bd
Pal. 252.
•
גַּת־רִמֹּון
S
1667
GK
1784
n.pr.loc.
in Dan
Jos 19:45
; Levitical city
21:24
=
1 Ch 6:54
; site unknown.—
רִמֹּון גַּת
in Manasseh
Jos 21:25
is scribal error; read
יִבְלְעָם
,
q.v.
• גִּתִּי S 1663 GK 1785 adj. gent. of II. גַּת 1 ; of Obed-edom 2 S 6:10 , 11 = 1 Ch 13:13 ; Ittai 2 S 15:19 , 22 ; 18:2 ; Goliath 21:19 1 Ch 20: 5; pl. c. art. as subst. , הַגִּתִּים 1 S 15:18 the Gittites (but read אִתַּי הַגִּתִּי We Klo Kit Bu Now Arch. i.308 n. ); sg. c. art. as n.pr.coll. הַגִּתִּי Jos 13:3 (with men of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashḳelon , Eḳron , and the Awwim).
Rob E. Robinson, Biblical Resarches.
ZPV Z. d. deutsch. Pal.-Vereins . ÉÑ Vulgate.
Jos Fl. Josephus, Antiquities GASm George Adam Smith, Historical Geography of the Holy Land. gent. gentis , of a people, gentilicium .
Kit R. Kittel. Bu K. Budde. Now W. Nowack, Hebräische Archäologie .