Hebrew word · H3194

יֻטָּה

yutah

Juttah

A place name only. It is spelled with a full vowel letter here (יוּטָּה) and without it in Joshua 21:16 (יֻטָּה). The meaning is uncertain.

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

§ Juttah = "stretched out"

a town in the mountains of Judah, in the neighbourhood of Maon and Carmel; modern 'Yutta'

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Joshua 15:55

Range of meaning

A place name only. It is spelled with a full vowel letter here (יוּטָּה) and without it in Joshua 21:16 (יֻטָּה). The meaning is uncertain.

Against the English

BSB, KJV and YLT spell it 'Juttah'. WEB has 'Jutah'. The words are the same and only the spelling differs.

Used elsewhere in the period

Generally identified with Yatta, about 8 km south of Hebron. In the 4th century Eusebius described Juttah as a very large village south of Eleutheropolis (Onomasticon). Joshua 21:16 lists it among the priestly towns. The parallel list in 1 Chronicles 6:59 (6:44 in Hebrew) does not have it, probably because it dropped out in copying (the Chronicles list there reads Ashan).

Where it appears

Joshua · 2

  1. Joshua 15:55 וְיוּטָּֽה׃ and Juttah

    Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

    Here: 'And' plus Juttah, today the large town of Yatta, about 8 km south of Hebron. Joshua 21:16 later assigns it to the priests as a Levitical town.

  2. Joshua 21:16 יֻטָּה֙ Juttah

    Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, together with their pasturelands.

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