Kartah

Kartah appears once, in the allotment of Levitical cities, as one of the towns given to the Merarite branch of the Levites out of the tribe of Zebulun.

A Levitical City of Zebulun

Joshua 21 distributes cities and pasture lands among the Levitical clans. The Merarites — "the rest of the Levites" — receive their portion from the northern tribes, and the verse listing Zebulun's contribution reads: "And to the families of the sons of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs" (Josh 21:34). Kartah stands second after Jokneam in the brief list of Zebulun-derived Merarite cities, paired with its surrounding pasturage as a residence for the Levites assigned to that region.