And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:

And Gideroth and Bethdagon and Naama and Maceda: sixteen cities, and their villages.

and Gederoth, Beth-Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities and their hamlets.

And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.

Et Gederoth, Beth-dagon, et Naamah, et Makeda: urbes sexdecim, et villae earum.

Beth-dagon - The house or temple of Dagon. This is a well known idol of the Philistines, and probably the place mentioned here was in some part of their territories; but the situation at present is unknown.

And Gederoth,.... Gederoth is reckoned among the cities of the low country, and south of Judah, 2-Chronicles 28:18,
and Bethdagon; in it very probably was a temple of Dagon, which was a principal deity of the Philistines, 1-Samuel 5:2; Jerom says (x) in his time was shown a large village called Capherdagon, between Diospolis and Jamnia; of Naamah, the same writer says nothing, only that it was a city of the tribe of Judah:
and Makkedah; see Joshua 10:10; it was a royal city, Joshua 12:16;
sixteen cities with their villages; and is the exact number of them, as before enumerated.
(x) De loc. Hebrews. fol. 89. F.

Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah have not yet been traced. The village mentioned in the Onom. (s. v. Beth-dagon) as grandis vicus Capher-dagon, and said to lie between Diospolis and Jamnia, the present Beit-dejan (Rob. iii. p. 30), was far beyond the northern boundary of the tribe of Judah. Makkedah: see at Joshua 10:10.