Garis (Hebrew: כפר עריס),[1](Greek: Γαρεις; Γάρις),[2] alternative spellings Garsis; Garisme, was a Jewish village in Lower Galilee, situated ca.
[4] In the early stages of the war, Josephus, with the Galileans who were put under his command, cast up a bank around the village, in anticipation of a Roman assault upon the town.
[5] And indeed this sight of the general (Vespasian) brought many to repent at their revolt, and put them all into a consternation; for those that were in Josephus's camp, which was at the city called Garis, not far from Sepphoris, when they heard that the war was come near them, and that the Romans would suddenly fight them hand to hand, dispersed themselves and fled....[6]The Hebrew name of the village is said to have been ʻAris (עריס),[7] having the connotation of "trellised vine"; "grape arbor"; "espalier.
[12] Likewise, the historian and archaeologist, Nikos Kokkinos, surmised that it may have been the ruin Tel Hannaton, being the same place as described by Guérin under its Arabic name, Tell Bedeiwîyeh.
[15][16] Karm (كرم) in Arabic denotes "vineyard," and is derived from the Aramaic word karma,[17] a name which may have been a calque, connected with the above-mentioned site of "Garis" = "trellised vine."