GERUTH-KIMHAM

Plot of land (meaning “the lodging place of Kimham”) near Bethlehem. Geruth-kimham possibly was given to Kimham for the service that his father, Barzillai the Gileadite, had rendered to King David (2 Sm 19:31-40; 1 Kgs 2:7). After the fall of Jerusalem (586 BC), Geruth-kimham was the camp of Johanan son of Kareah and his men as they prepared to flee to Egypt (Jer 41:17). See Kimham.