Netophah: Distillation; dropping, a town in Judah, in the neighbourhood,
probably, of Bethlehem
(Nehemiah 7:26; 1 Chronicles 2:54) Two of David's guards were
Netophathites
(1 Chronicles 27:13,15) It has been identified with the ruins of
Metoba, or Um Toba, to the north-east of Bethlehem.
