Rakkath

Rakkath appears once in Scripture in Joshua's catalog of Naphtali's fortified cities: "And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth, And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor, And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor, And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages" (Joshua 19:35-38). The cluster of Hammath-Rakkath-Chinnereth occupied the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Rabbinic tradition identifies Rakkath with the later city of Tiberias built by Herod Antipas in 20 CE on the same site — making it (according to that tradition) one of the four holy cities of Jewish learning alongside Jerusalem Hebron and Safed.