Places of the Bible
Jarmuth
A town in the plain of Judah · City
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Jarmuth, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
- War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 4 verses
What the spade found
Jarmuth is generally identified with Tell Yarmut, a tell — a mound raised by one settlement built on the ruins of the last. It has been excavated, and at its largest covered 16 hectares.
Occupation shows in 13 dated phases: Early Bronze Age IB, Early Bronze Age II, Early Bronze Age III, Middle Bronze Age II-III, Late Bronze Age III, Iron Age I, Iron Age IIa, Iron Age IIb, Iron Age IIc, Iron Age III (Persian), Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine.
The excavation is from the survey dataset From Villages to Empires (Zanoni and others, 2025), used under CC BY 4.0. The identification is the one modern scholarship settles on, compiled by OpenBible.info from over seventy works, also under CC BY 4.0. Identifying a mound with a biblical name is a scholarly judgement, and for some places it is still debated.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A town in the plain of Judah (Josh. 15:35), originally the residence of one of the Canaanitish kings (10:3, 5, 23). It has been identified with the modern Yarmuk, a village about 7 miles north-east of Beit-Jibrin.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 6 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.