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Jarmuth

Jarmuth was an Amorite city in Canaan at the time of the Israelite settlement recorded in the Hebrew Bible.

According to , its king, Piram, was one of five kings who formed an alliance to attack Gibeon in response to Gibeon's tolerance of the Israelite settlement under Joshua.

Jarmuth later became a Levitical city given to the Gershonites within the territory of the Tribe of Issachar, according to . Jarmuth is not mentioned in the parallel list of Levitical cities in 1 Chronicles 6), but Ramoth is mentioned in its place . Theologian John Gill suggested that they might have been the same place.

The Douai-Rheims version of the Bible has an alternative spelling, Jaramoth.