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kat´ath (קטּת, ḳaṭṭāth): A city in the territory of Zebulun, named with Iphtah-el, Nahalel, and Shimron (), perhaps to be identified with Kitron (), from which Zebulun did not expel the Canaanites; and with Kartah (), which was given to the Merarite Levites. The Babylonian Talmud (Meg. 6a) identifies Kattath with Sepphoris, the modern Seffūriyeh (but see Neubauer, Geographie du Talmud, 191). The Jerusalem Talmud takes it as identical with Ḳetūnith, Ḳuṭeineh, to the West of Esdraelon. It should probably, however, be sought near to Shimron, the modern Semūniyeh.