1. City in the Shefelah, described as lying between the towns of En-gannim and Enam; probably situated north of the Wadi al-Suná¹, and identical with the modern 'Artuf (Joshua 15:34). 2. City in Ephraim, marking the western boundary of the tribe (Joshua 16:8). 3. The land of Tappuah, which belonged, with the exception of the city of the same name, to the tribe of Manasseh (Josh. 8). It was one of the thirty-one districts whose kings were vanquished by the Jews when they first invaded Palestine (Joshua 12:17). 4 (Entappuah). Southern boundary of the tribe of Manasseh (Joshua 17:7). 5. Son of Hebron (1 Chronicles 2:43).
Bibliography:
- Sebwarz, Palestine, pp. 89, 102, Philiadelphia, 1850.
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