his touching; his roaring
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Jer_31:39. Named with the hill Garth. From gaah, "to low" as a cow, "the heifer's pool" (Targum). But Syriac version, "to the eminence," from gawah "to lose one's breath," namely, with ascending. S.W. outside the city of David, as Gareb was N.W. (Junius, in Poli Synopsis). Rather N.W. (Fergusson) (See JERUSALEM.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Go'ath. (lowing). A place apparently in the neighborhood of Jerusalem, and named, in connection with the hill Gareb, only in Jer_31:39.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Goath
(or, rather, GOAH', גֹּעָה, a lowing; the final חbeing local in גֹּעָתָה, "to Goath," Sept. ἐξ ἐκλεκτῶμ λίθων; Vulg. Goatha), a place in the vicinity of Jerusalem, mentioned only in Jer_31:39 as lying beyond "the hill Gareb," in the compass of the city from between thee corner-tower (on the north-west) and the valley of Tophet (on the south); hence, perhaps, some eminence on the western bank of the valley of Gihon. SEE JERUSALEM. In accordance with the etymology is the rendering of the Targum, which has for Goah בְּרֵיבִת עֶגְלָא= the heifer's pool. The Syriac, on the other hand, has leromto, "to the emisesce," perhaps reading גֹּאָה(Fürst Handwb. page 269b). Barclay (City of Great King, page 118) essentially agrees with the above location, although he seeks to identify the name with Golgotha (page 78), which is forbidden by the presence of the עin Goah, and other philological considerations. SEE GOLGOTHA.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.