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(Heb. Gath-Rimmon', âִּú 9 øַîּåֹï , press of the pomegranate; Sept. Ãåèñåììώí , Vulgate Gethremmon), a town in the tribe of Dan (Jos_19:45), and a Levitical city (Jos_21:24; 1Ch_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. Ãåèñåììώí , Gethreasmon); but the same writers also mention a Gath five Raoman miles north of Eleutberopolis towards Diospolis (ib. s.v. ÃÝè , 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 Jos_21:25 as being in the tribe of Manasseh, Rausner (Palistina, page 173) supposes to be another Levitical city; but Winer (Realwörterbuch, s.v. Gath) ascribes its origin to ,a maistake of the transcriber, who repeated the word from the preceding Verse. The Sept. has
É᾿åâáèÜ
(v.r.
ÂáéèóÜ
), probably intended for the IBLEAM SEE IBLEAM (q.v.) of Jos_17:11.