Gamad

Gamad was a Phoenician city or region named in Ezekiel's great oracle and lament for Tyre, in the catalog of the maritime allies and merchant suppliers that made Tyre wealthy: "The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers" (Ezekiel 27:11). The Gammadims (men of Gamad) served as defenders in Tyre's towers alongside the rowers from Arvad and Sidon. The exact location is uncertain but lay somewhere in the Phoenician coastal hinterland — possibly identified with Kumidi (modern Kamid el-Loz) in the Beqaa valley of modern Lebanon.