It appears to be a region where descendants of Salma, who belonged to the tribe of Judah, settled.
1 Chronicles 2:54The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
2 Samuel 23:28Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,2 Samuel 23:29Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.
1 Chronicles 11:30Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
2 Kings 25:23Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, “Don’t be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”
Jeremiah 40:8Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, “Don’t be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.
Ezra 2:1who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:Ezra 2:2The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
Ezra 2:22The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
1 Chronicles 9:16The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
Nehemiah 12:27The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;Nehemiah 12:28also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.Nehemiah 12:29The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.