And Janum,.... Under the word "Janum", Jerom writes , there is a village called Janua, three miles from Legion to the south, but seems not to be what is written;and Bethtappuah is by Jerom called Bethaphu , and said to be a village in the tribe of Judah, fourteen miles beyond Raphia, as you go to Egypt, which is the border of Palestine;and Aphekah; Jerom speaks of a large castle in his time called Apheca, near the town of Palestine; there were several places of the name of Aphek; See Gill on "Jos 12:18".
As for Bethtappuah, it seems to be a place which was dedicated to a deity to which apples were sacred, in memory of the apple by which mankind was seduced; there was in later times a goddess called Pomona from hence.
De loc. Heb. fol. 92. I. Ibid. fol. 89. F. Ibid. fol. 88.