JARMUTH jär’ muth (יַרְמ֜וּת, a height). 1. A city in Canaan whose king, Piram, entered into a conspiracy with the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Lachish, and Debir against the Gibeonites to revenge their submission to Joshua (Josh 10:3, 5, 22ff.). Joshua defeated the five kings at Gibeon and slew them at Makkedah. It was about ten Rom. m. from Eleutheropolis, on the way toward Jerusalem. After the conquest of Canaan it was assigned to Judah. Some Jews returned there after the Babylonian Exile (Neh 11:29).

2. A city in Issachar belonging to the Gershonite Levites (Josh 21:29). In the parallel list in 1 Chronicles 6:73 the text has Ramoth; in Joshua 19:21 Remeth appears among the cities of Issachar. The name was prob. Remeth or Ramoth, but the site remains uncertain.