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Gath

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A city in ancient Philistia, home of Goliath, located in the foothills of the Judean Mountains in what is most likely modern-day Israel.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Various origins: * A reduced form of McGath, a Scottish surname. * A variant of Garth, an English topographic surname. * Borrowed from North German Gath, a topographic surname from Middle Low German gate (“street, alley”).

Etymology 2

From Hebrew גַּת (“wine press”), from a Philistine word such as Gīt.

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