the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Juttah
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
or ("stretched out.) A city in the hill country of Judah (Joshua 15:55), allotted to the priests (Joshua 21:16). Omitted by copyist's error in 1 Chronicles 6:57-59; now Yutta, near Main (Maon) and Kurmul (Carmel). Herein appears the value of the repetitions of names in parallel passages; the one corrects errors which creep into the other. As Joshua herein supplies the omission in Chronicles, so Chronicles gives Ashan the right reading for Ain in Joshua, as Septuagint prove. In the Egyptian monuments Juttah appears as Jah or Jahn, a fort of the Anakim near Arba or Hebron, In Luke 1:39 "a city of Juda" is a doubtful translation; for Judah or Judaea, the region, has usually the article in Greek (see Luke 1:5-65); and "Juda" had long been superseded by "Judaea." Probably "the city Juttah" or "Juda" is meant, the residence of Zacharias and Elisabeth, and the birthplace of John Baptist. However "Juda" is used of the region of Judah, Matthew 2:6.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Juttah'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/j/juttah.html. 1949.
