King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5852
Transliteration: Ataroth
Phonetic Spelling: (at-aw-roth')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: the name of several places in Isr
Meaning: Ataroth -- the name of several places in Israel
Word Summary
Ataroth: the name of several places in Isr
Original Word: עֲטָרוֹתTransliteration: Ataroth
Phonetic Spelling: (at-aw-roth')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: the name of several places in Isr
Meaning: Ataroth -- the name of several places in Israel
Strong's Concordance
Ataroth Or Ataroth {at-aw-roth'}; plural of atarah; Ataroth, the name (thus simply) of two places in Palestine -- Ataroth.
see HEBREW atarah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5852. Ataroth
עֲטָרוֺת and (Numbers 32:34) עֲטָרֹת proper name, of a location Αταρωθ, etc.:
1 East of Jordan (MI10, 11); —
a. Numbers 32:3 (+ דִּיבוֺן, etc.) — modern A‰‰arûs, approximately 8 miles north-northwest from Dibon — built by Gad 32:34 (+ עֲרֹעֵר ׳ד,, and also)
b. שׁוֺפָן עַטְרֹת Numbers 32:35 (Samaritan ׳ע שפים, see Di; site unknown).
2 west of Jordan, conjectures as to sites see in Di BuhlGeogr. 172:
a. on border between Ephraim and Benjamin Joshua 16:2, = אַדָּר עַטְרוֺת 16:5; 18:13.
b. on east border of Ephraim Joshua 16:7.
c. יוֺאָב בֵּית עַטְרוֺת 1 Chronicles 2:54 in Judah; a 'son' of Salma (+ Bethlehem, al.).
עטשׁ (√ of following; Late Hebrew עָטַשׁ sneeze; Aramaic in derivative noun; Arabic id., Ethiopic [], , sneezing).