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(Heb. Kartan', ÷ִøְúָּï , double city, an old dual from ÷ֶøֶú ; Sept. ÊáñèÜí v. r. Èåììώí and Íïåììώí ), a town of Naphtali, assigned to the Gershonite Levites, and appointed to be one of the cities of refuge (Jos_21:32). In the parallel passage (1Ch_6:76) it is called by the equivalent name of KIRJATHAIM. The associated names suggest the probability of some locality near the north-western shore of the Sea of Tiberias, perhaps the ruined village marked as el-Katanah on Van de Velde's map, on wady Furam, about midway between Lake Tiberias and the Huleh.