Juttah

Juttah is a town in the hill country of Judah, later assigned to the priestly Levites. It appears twice in the allotment lists of Joshua, with UPDV preserving two slightly different spellings of the name in the two passages.

A Town in Judah's Hill Country

In the catalog of Judah's inheritance, the town stands among the highland villages near Maon and Ziph: "Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah" (Josh 15:55). The spelling here is "Jutah," without the doubled consonant.

A Levitical City

When the Levites receive their cities out of the tribal allotments, the same town is one of those given over with its surrounding pasture lands: "and Ashan with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes" (Josh 21:16). Here UPDV reads "Juttah," and the town is grouped with the holdings drawn from Judah and Simeon to support the priestly families.