Goath

Go’ath. (lowing). A place apparently in the neighborhood of Jerusalem, and named, in connection with the hill Gareb, only in Jer 31:39.

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.)

(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.

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Place mentioned as one of the boundaries to which the city of Jerusalem will extend when it is rebuilt ’to the Lord.’ Jer 31:39. Not identified.