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jut´a, joÌ„ō´ta (יטּה, yutÌ£tÌ£aÌ„h, ; Septuagint ΤανυÌ, TanuÌ; and in the King James Version, Septuagint ἸταÌν, ItaÌn, A, IettaÌ); joÌ„ō´ta, jū´ta (יוּטה, yaÌ„tÌ£aÌ„h, ): A town in the hill country of Judah, mentioned with Maon, Carmel and Ziph; a Levitical city (). In some versions of Septuagint it occurs (ἸοταÌ, IotaÌ) in . In the Eusebius, Onomasticon (266 49; 133 10) a large village called “Juttah†is described as 18 Roman miles from Eleutheropolis. This agrees with the position of YutÌ£tÌ£aÌ„, a large and prosperous Moslem village, 3,740 ft. above sea-level, 5 1/3 miles South of Hebron and 15 1/2 miles from Beit Jebrı̄n (Eleutheropolis). There are many rock-cut tombs and ancient winepresses all around the village.
Reland (Pal, 870) suggested (and many others have followed him) that the ποÌλις ἸουÌδα, poÌlis IouÌda, translated “city of Judah,†in , should be poÌlis IouÌda, “the city Yuta.†The translation “city of Judah†is suspicious, because Iouda is without the article, which is usually put before the name of a district; the interchange of “t†and “d†is a very common one. Dr. Paterson, resident many years in Hebron, states that there is a local Moslem tradition in the district that YutÌ£tÌ£aÌ„ was the home of John the Baptist. For YutÌ£tÌ£aÌ„ see PEF, III, 310, Sh XXI.