Methegammah

Town

Location disputed Tell es Safi: about 40 km (23 miles, 200 furlongs) west of Jerusalem

Where Scholars Place It

  • Tell es Safi Possible
  • Ras Abu Hamid Less likely
  • Tell esh Sharia Less likely
  • Tel Haror Less likely

Metheg-ammah in the Bible Dictionary

Named in 1 Verse

  • 2 Samuel 8:1 And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the Philistines.

Locations from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Terrain from Natural Earth and NASA SRTM.