calling; meeting
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
KARTAH.A city of Zebulun (Jos_21:34); not mentioned in the parallel passage, 1Ch_6:77. The site is unknown. It might be for Kattath by a clerical error.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A town of Zebulnn, assigned to the Merarite Levites (Jos_21:34).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Kar'tah. (city). A town of Zebulun, allotted to the Merarite Levites. Jos_21:34.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
kar?ta (קרתּה, ḳartāh): A city in the territory of Zebulun, assigned to the Levites (Jos_21:34). It is not identified. Possibly it is a variant of KATTATH, or of KARTAN (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Kartah
(Heb. Kartah', קִרְתָּה, city; Sept. Καρθάν v. r. Κάδης), a town in the tribe of Zebulon, assigned, with its suburbs, as one of the places of residence for the Levites of the family of Merari (Jos_21:34). It is there mentioned between Jokneam and Dimnah, the fourth city named being Nahalal; but the parallel passage (1Ch_6:77) gives but two cities, and these different, namely, Rimmon and Tabor, the first of these being probably a preferable reading for Dimnah, and the latter a collective for two others, Jokneam being in the same connection (1Ch_6:68) separately attributed to the Kohathites along with other places on Mt. Ephraim, near which it lay. Kartah is doubtless identical with the KATTATH elsewhere spoken of in the same association (Jos_19:15). Van de Velde suggests (Memoir, p. 327) that it is possibly the same with elHarte, a village with traces of antiquity on the banks of the Kishon," not very far from its junction with wady Melek; the ruins being on the tell Harteyeh, on the opposite side of the river (Narrative, i, 289).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.