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Gath

 (găth)
An ancient city of Palestine east-northeast of Gaza. It was one of the five Philistine city-kingdoms and the home of Goliath.
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Gath

(ɡæθ)
n
(Bible) Old Testament one of the five cities of the Philistines, from which Goliath came (I Samuel 17:4) and near which Saul fell in battle (II Samuel 1:20). Douay spelling: Geth
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Next came one Who mourn'd in earnest, when the Captive Ark Maim'd his brute Image, head and hands lopt off In his own Temple, on the grunsel edge, Where he fell flat, and sham'd his Worshipers: DAGON his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man And downward Fish: yet had his Temple high Rear'd in AZOTUS, dreaded through the Coast Of PALESTINE, in GATH and ASCALON, And ACCARON and GAZA's frontier bounds.
Tell this not in Gath, lest the Scots rejoice that they have at length found a parallel instance among their neighbours, to that barbarous deed which demolished Arthur's Oven.
Previous excavations at the site, known as Tell es-Safi, uncovered ruins dating to the 9th and 10th centuries BCE, but the new discovery suggests that the city of Gath was at its height in the 11th century BCE, during Goliath's time.
1.20: A Rutter & J Elliott (Gath); E Brookes & M Chadwick (Man).
Kulgam (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 21 ( ANI ): The bullet-riddled body of a police constable, who was abducted by terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam last night, has been recovered from Qaimoh Gath area in the district.
"How are the mighty fallen!" is a statement that ranges far beyond Gath and Ashkelon.
Gath wrote a blistering 1300-word essay that he published on Facebook.com and sent to Romenesko, who also published it.
38-39, chapter 14) in conjunction with cultural features enumerated above demonstrates multiple influences of varying dominance on Iron IIA Gath's cultural/ethnic features that serve to distinguish her from other Philistine cities (pp.
The cat's owner, Dominic Gath, who witnessed the attack, said: "It was horrific.
Werth was born April 2, 1942 in Tonawanda NY the son of the late Edward and Esther (Gath) Werth.
My starting point of "y gath yn y cornel" or "the cat is in the corner" (I don't have a cat) and "rydw i'n hoffi coff"' or "I like coffee" (I don't) were unimpressive for both father and daughter.
Two more people were gunned down in Bihar colony, and one was shot dead in Garden area of Dhobi Gath.