("plain of the vineyards"): Jdg_11:33 margin. An Ammonite village, six miles from Rabbath Ammon, or Philadelphia; the limit of Jephthah's pursuit of the Ammonites. Ruins named Abila still are found in this region. De Sauley met with a Beit el Kerm, "house of the vine," N. of Kerak, possibly identical with Abel-Ceramim.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
A?bel-Carma?im (Place of the vineyards), a village of the Ammonites, about six miles from Philadelphia, or Rabbath Ammon, according to Eusebius, in whose time the place was still rich in vineyards (Jdg_11:33).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.