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ID: 6002210
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6002210
Record Type:
administrative
Gath (lost settlement)
Note:
It was a royal city of the ancient Philistines. In the Bible, the birthplace of Goliath and a refuge for David, also as the city of the Anakim. The location is unknown, although Tel Zafit and Ramla have been proposed as possible sites.
Names:
Gath
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Gath of the Philistines
(
C
,
V
)
Gat
(
C
,
V
)
Geth
(
C
,
V
)
גַּת
(
C
,
V
,
Hebrew
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Yisra'el
(nation) (
P
)
............
Gath
(lost settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
lost settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
H
)
Philistine (
H
)
Related geographic places:
possibly identified as ....
Ramla
.......... (inhabited place)
........................................
(World, Asia, Yisra'el, HaMerkaz) [7001366]
possibly identified as ....
Tel Ẕafit
.......... (deserted settlement)
........................................
(World, Asia, Yisra'el, HaDarom) [7593992]
Sources and Contributors:
גַּת..........
[
VP
]
..............
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Gat..........
[
VP
]
...........
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Gath..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 324
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 143-144
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
430
Gath of the Philistines..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Geth..........
[
VP
]
...........
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 324
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 143-144
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
430
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
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