KARTAN.A city of Naphtali (Jos_21:32). The parallel passage, 1Ch_6:76, has Kiriathaim.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A city of Naphtali, assigned to the Gershonite Levites (Jos_21:32); in 1Ch_6:76 expanded into Kirjathaim.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Kar'tan. (double city). A city of Naphtali, allotted to the Gershonite Levites. Jos_21:32. In the parallel list of 1Ch_6:1, the name appears, 1Ch_6:76, in the more expanded form of Kirjathaim.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
kar?tan (קרתּן, ḳartān): A city in the territory of Naphtali, given to the Gershonite Levites (Jos_21:32). It is called Kiriathaim in 1Ch_6:76. Kartan may be a contraction of this. Cheyne (EB, under the word) suggests that both names may be corruptions from ?Chinnereth.? Neither is mentioned in Jos_19:32, Jos_19:38, in the list of Naphtalite cities, while Chinnereth is.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Kartan
(Heb. Kartan', קִרְתָּן, double city, an old dual from קֶרֶת; Sept. Καρθάν v. r. Θεμμών and Νοεμμών), a town of Naphtali, assigned to the Gershonite Levites, and appointed to be one of the cities of refuge (Jos_21:32). In the parallel passage (1Ch_6:76) it is called by the equivalent name of KIRJATHAIM. The associated names suggest the probability of some locality near the north-western shore of the Sea of Tiberias, perhaps the ruined village marked as el-Katanah on Van de Velde's map, on wady Furam, about midway between Lake Tiberias and the Huleh.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.