Juttah
Ἰτάν
Juttah (Ἰτάν, LXX.), a town of Judah (Josh. 15.55), appropriated to the priests; according to Eusebius (Onomast. s. v. Ἰεττάν) it was 18 M. P. from Eleutheropolis. Reland (Palaest. p. 870) supposes this to have been the residence of Zacharias and Elizabeth, and the birthplace of John the Baptist,--the πσ́λις Ἰούδα of Luke, 1.39, being so written, by a corruption or from a softer pronunciation, instead of πσ́λις Ἰούτα. The modern Yŭtta, on the site of the old town, in which there are said to be indications of old remains, preserves the ancient name. (Robinson, Bib. Res. vol. ii. pp. 190, 195, 628; Ritter, Erdkunde, vol. xv. pt. i. pp. 638, 641; Winer, s. v.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.