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עֲטָרוֹת

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Ataroth

§ Ataroth = "crowns" a place on the boundary of Ephraim and Manasseh between Ephraim and Benjamin

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

עֲטָרוֺת and (Num 32:34) עֲטָרֹת proper name, of a location Αταρωθ, etc.:

1. East of Jordan (MI10, 11); —
  a. Num 32:3 (+ דִּיבוֺן, etc.) — modern A‰‰arûs, approximately 8 miles north-northwest from Dibon — built by Gad Num 32:34 (+ ׳ד, עֲרֹעֵר, and also)
  b. עַטְרֹת שׁוֺפָן vNum 32:35 (Samaritan שפים ׳ע, see Di; site unknown).
2. west of Jordan, conjectures as to sites see in Di BuhlGeogr. 172:
  a. on border between Ephraim and Benjamin Josh 16:2, = עַטְרוֺת אַדָּר vJosh 16:5; Josh 18:13.
  b. on east border of Ephraim Josh 16:7.
  c. עַטְרוֺת בֵּית יוֺאָב 1Chr 2:54 in Judah; a 'son' of Salma (+ Bethlehem, al.).


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