Lexical Summary Etam: three places in Isr Original Word: עֵיטָםTransliteration: Etam Phonetic Spelling: (ay-tawm') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: three places in Isr Meaning: Etam -- three places in Israel Strong's Concordance Etam From ayit; hawk-ground; Etam, a place in Palestine -- Etam. see HEBREW ayit Brown-Driver-Briggs H5862. Etam עֵיטָם proper name, of a location (perhaps animal-name, from עַיִט, compare GrayProp. Names 93); — 1 Ηταμ, ᵐ5L Ιταμ, a. cliff, ע סֶלַע ׳סְעִיף Judges 15:8, 11 perhaps near town עֵיטָם, see following, but at ±Ar¹‡ Isma±£n near edge of Shephelah, west-southwest from Jerusalem according to SchickZPV x (1887), 143 ff. 2 Αιταν[μ], etc., city fortified by Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 11:6, between Bethlehem and Tekoa, = ±Ain ±At¹n approximately 2 miles south-southwest from Bethlehem, BuhlGeogr. 92 GFMJudges 15:8, near Urtâs RobBR i. 477; clan in Judah 1 Chronicles 4:3. 3 Αιταν[μ], in Simeon 1 Chronicles 4:32 (Be [not Oettli Kau Kit] reads עֵתֶר from Joshua 15:42). |
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