Amad

Amad was one of the towns named in Asher's tribal allotment in the western Galilee (Joshua 19:26): "and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal." The town appears only once in Scripture, in this border list between the named fortified settlements Allammelech and Mishal. The exact site is uncertain; some scholars connect it with the modern village of Amwas (a different site than the New Testament Emmaus) or with one of the smaller tells in the western Acco plain. Like many of Asher's allotment towns, Amad represents a Canaanite settlement the tribe never fully dispossessed (Judges 1:31), instead living alongside the original inhabitants.