Gath-Hepher

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GATH-HEPHER (Jos_19:13 [AV [Note: Authorized Version.] wrongly Gittah-hepher, which is simply the form of the name with He locale], 2Ki_14:25, ‘wine press of the pit or well’).—The home of the prophet Jonah. It lay on the border of Zebulun, and is mentioned with Japhia and Rimmon—the modern Yâfâ and Rummâneh. Jerome, in the preface to his Com. on Jonah, speaks of Geth quae est in Opher (cf. Vulg. [Note: Vulgate.] 2Ki_14:25), and places it 2 Roman miles from Sepphoris (Seffûrieh), on the road to Tiberias. This points to el-Meshhed, a village on a slight eminence N. of the Tiberias road, 1/2 mile W. of Kefr Kenna, where one of Jonah’s many reputed tombs is still pointed out.
W. Ewing.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

("the winepress of the well".) Jos_19:12-13. On Zebulun's border, near Japhia (Yafa). Jonah's birthplace (2Ki_14:25). Now El Meshhad, where his tomb is still shown, two miles E. of Sefurieh (Sepphoris).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.

Gath-he'pher. (wine-press on the hill). A town on the border of the territory of Zebulun, not far from Japhia, now 'Yafa, Jos_19:12-13, celebrated as the native place of the prophet, Jonah. 2Ki_14:25. El-Meshhad, a village two-miles east of Sefurieh, is the ancient Gath-hepher.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863

gath-hē?fẽr (גּ ת החפר, gath ha-ḥēpher, ?winepress of the pit?): A town on the boundary of Zebulun (Jos_19:13; the King James Version in error, ?Gittah-hapher?), the birthplace of the prophet Jonah (2Ki_14:25). Jerome (Commentary on Jonah) speaks of Geth as an inconsiderable village, about 2 miles from Sepphoris on the Tiberias road, where the tomb of Jonah was shown. Benjamin of Tudela says that Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet was buried ?in the mountain? near Sepphoris (Bohn, Early Travels in Palestine, 88). These indications agree with the local tradition which identifies Gath-hepher with el-Meshhed, a village with ancient ruins on a height North of the road as one goes to Tiberias, about 2 miles from Nazareth, and half a mile from Kefr Kennah.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Gath-hepher
(Heb. with the art. Gath ha-Che'pher, גִּת הִחֵפֶו, wine-press of the well; Sept. Γεθχόφερ, Vulg. Geth quae est in Opher), a town in Galilee, the birthplace of the prophet Jonah (2Ki_14:25). It is stated by Eusebius and Jerome to have been in the tribe of Zebulun (Onomast. s.v. Γεθθεφά, Gethefer). The latter (Praef ad Jon.) speaks of it as a small place two miles from Sepphoris, on the way to Tiberias, and says that the sepulcher of Jonah was shown in his day. Benjamin of Tudela, in the 12th century, says that the tomb of Jonah was still shown on a hill near Sepphoris (Early Travels in Pal. page 89). It was doubtless the same as GITTAH-HEPHER, situated in the east of Zebulun (Jos_19:13). The position corresponds well to that of ea-Meshadn , a village on the top of a rocky hill, in which is still shown a Muslim tomb, of the prophet Jonah (Robinson, Researches, 3:209, note; De Saulcy, Narrative, 2:318; Thomson, Land and Book, 2:122; Schwarz, Palest. page 89; Van de Velde, Memoim, page 312). SEE GUFTA.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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