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(Heb. with the art. Gath ha-Che'pher, âִּú äִçֵôֶå , wine-press of the well; Sept. Ãåè÷üöåñ , Vulg. Geth quae est in Opher), a town in Galilee, the birthplace of the prophet Jonah (2Ki_14:25). It is stated by Eusebius and Jerome to have been in the tribe of Zebulun (Onomast. s.v. ÃåèèåöÜ , Gethefer). The latter (Praef ad Jon.) speaks of it as a small place two miles from Sepphoris, on the way to Tiberias, and says that the sepulcher of Jonah was shown in his day. Benjamin of Tudela, in the 12th century, says that the tomb of Jonah was still shown on a hill near Sepphoris (Early Travels in Pal. page 89). It was doubtless the same as GITTAH-HEPHER, situated in the east of Zebulun (Jos_19:13). The position corresponds well to that of ea-Meshadn , a village on the top of a rocky hill, in which is still shown a Muslim tomb, of the prophet Jonah (Robinson, Researches, 3:209, note; De Saulcy, Narrative, 2:318; Thomson, Land and Book, 2:122; Schwarz, Palest. page 89; Van de Velde, Memoim, page 312). SEE GUFTA.