Lexical Summary Pithom: a place in Egypt Original Word: פִתֹםTransliteration: Pithom Phonetic Spelling: (pee-thome') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a place in Egypt Meaning: Pithom -- a place in Egypt Strong's Concordance Pithom Of Egyptian derivation; Pithom, a place in Egypt -- Pithom. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6619. Pithom מִּתֹם proper name, of a location Pithom, Π(ε)ιθω, Α Πιθωμ (Egyptian Patum, Per-Atum, house of (god) Atum) one of the מִסְכְּנוֺת עָרֵי built by Israel for Pharaoh Exodus 1:11; identification by Naville with Tel el-Maskhkûta, near East end of Wady Tumilat, NavillePithom, 1885 Di-Ryon the passage DiSBAk, 1885, 889 ff. BädEgypt (4). 159. פתן (√ of following; meaning dubious; HilprBabylonian Exped. University of Pennsylvania ix (1898), 53, compare Assyrian patânu, 'protect,' whence two following, 'serpent' as protector, and 'threshold' as asylum; plausible, but exact meaning of patânu still uncertain). |
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