Jarmuth 1.
A town in the shephelah or low hills (not "the plain ") of Judah (Joshua 15:35). Piram its king was one of the five confederated to punish Gibeon for submitting to Joshua (Joshua 10:3; Joshua 10:5); routed at Beth-horon; executed at Makkedah (Joshua 10:23). Occupied by children of Judah on the return from Babylon (Nehemiah 11:29). Now Yarmuk, with a hill near, Tell Urmud.
2.A city of Issachar, assigned to the Gershonite Levites. (Joshua 21:29). REMETH in Joshua 19:20; RAMOTH in 1 Chronicles 6:73. Both are modifications of the same root as Jarmuth.