Dict: smith - NETOPHAH

smith:

NETOPHAH - N>@ - (distillation), a town the name of which occurs only in the catalogue of those who returned with Zerubbabel from the captivity. kjv@Ezra:2:22; kjv@Nehemiah:7:26) 1 Esdr. kjv@5:18. But, though not directly mentioned till so late a period, Netophah was really a much older place. Two of David’s guard, ( kjv@1Chronicles:17:13-15) were Netophathites. The "villages of the Neophathites" were the residence of the Levites. ( kjv@1Chronicles:9:16) From another notice we learn that the particular Levites who inhabited these villages were singers. kjv@Nehemiah:12:28) To judge from kjv@Nehemiah:7:26) the town was in the neighborhood of, or closely connected with, Bethlehem.