GATH-RIMMON (Γεθρεμμών), a city of the tribe of Dan ( Josh. 19.45), assigned to the Levites (21.24; 1 Chron. 6.69), is described by Eusebius and St. Jerome as situated 12 miles from Diospolis, towards Eleutheropolis ( Onomast. s. v. ); but this can scarcely be, as Dr. Robinson conjectures, identical with that which they place 5 miles from Eleutheropolis, on the way to Diospolis, as the distance between the two termini is much more than 17 miles. (Robinson, Bib. Res. vol. 2. p. 421.) Neither can it be that large village then named Githha, which the Onomasticonsupposes to be the Gath to which the ark of the covenant was carried from Azotus, and which is placed (s. v. Γεθθάbetween Antipatris and Jamnia. (Reland, Palaest. p. 786.)
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