Bible Dictionary · R
Rakkath
Shore-town, a “fenced city” of the tribe of Naphtali (Josh 19:35). The old name of Tiberias, according to the Rabbins.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Joshua 19:35 And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.