RAKKATH răk’ ĭth (רַקַּ֥ת; LXX Δακεθ, LXX Alexandrinus Ρεκκαθ, LXX Lucian Ράκκαθ; meaning uncertain).

A fortified city in Naphtali. Jewish tradition identified it with Tiberias, but modern scholarship identified it with Khirbet el-Quneitireh, a small ancient site near the W shore of the Sea of Galilee c. a m. and a half N of Tiberias.

Bibliography W. F. Albright, “The Jordan Valley in the Bronze Age,” AASOR, VI (1926), 26; Y. Aharoni and M. Avi-Yonah, The Macmillan Bible Atlas (1968), maps 17, 21, 72, 108, 113.