Dothan (Hebrew: דֹתָן‎) (also Dotan) is a location mentioned twice in the Hebrew Bible. It has been identified with Tell Dothan (Arabic: تل دوثان), also known as Tell al-Hafireh, located adjacent to the Palestinian town of Bir al-Basha, and ten kilometers (driving distance) southwest of Jenin in the West Bank, near Dotan Junction of Route 60.

The modern consensus is that the archaeological site of Tell Dothan corresponds to ancient Dothan.

Eusebius places Dothan 12 miles to the north of Sebaste; broadly consistent with the modern location.

Van de Velde noted that the Crusaders and later medieval travelers had located Dothan at the village of Hittin.

Dothan is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Genesis) in connection with the history of Joseph, as the place in which the sons of Jacob (Israel) had moved their sheep and, at the suggestion of Judah, the brothers sold Joseph to the Ishmaelite merchants (Gen. 37:17). It later appears as the residence of Elisha (Second Book of Kings, 2 Kings 6:13) and the scene of a vision of chariots and horses of fire surrounding the mountain on which the city stood.

The plain near Dothan is also mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Judith.

Dothan served as an Israelite administrative centre, and archaeologists have discovered a large complex and Hebrew inscriptions at the site. During Iron Age II, it was a city in the Kingdom of Israel. Archaeologist William G. Dever estimates the city's population to have been around 1,200 people during the 9th and 8th centuries BCE.

A bronze bull was found in an Israelite sanctuary east of Tell Dothan, in the mountains of Samaria, dated to around the 11th century, which may be related to the episode of the golden calf.^{[citation needed]}