Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #5862 - עֵיטָם Etam (three places in Isr)

Original Word:	עֵיטָם
Transliteration:	Etam
Definition:	three places in Isr
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:	(ay-tawm')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Etam

From ayit; hawk-ground; Etam, a place in Palestine -- Etam.

see HEBREW ayit

Englishman's Concordance

Etam=“lair of wild beasts”
1) a village of the tribe of Simeon
2) a town in Judah fortified and garrisoned by king Rehoboam of Judah and located between Bethlehem and Tekoa
3) a cliff; site uncertain
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5861

Brown-Driver-Briggs

עֵיטָםproper name, of a location (perhaps animal-name, from עַיִט, compare Gray^{Prop. Names 93}); —

1Ηταμ, ᵐ5^LΙταμ, a. cliff, ׳סְעִיף סֶלַע עJudges 15:8,11 perhaps near town עֵיטָם, see following, but at ±Ar¹‡ Isma±£n near edge of Shephelah, west-southwest from Jerusalem according to Schick^{ZPV x (1887), 143 ff.}

2Αιταν[μ], etc., city fortified by Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 11:6, between Bethlehem and Tekoa,=±Ain ±At¹n approximately 2 miles south-southwest from Bethlehem, Buhl^{Geogr. 92} GFM^{Judges 15:8}, near Urtâs Rob^{BR i. 477}; clan in Judah 1 Chronicles 4:3.

3Αιταν[μ], in Simeon 1 Chronicles 4:32 (Be [not Oettli Kau Kit] reads עֵתֶר from Joshua 15:42).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5862. עֵיטָם (Etam) — 5 Occurrences

Judges 15:8
HEB:בִּסְעִ֖יף סֶ֥לַע עֵיטָֽם׃ ס
NAS: in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
KJV: in the top of the rock Etam.
INT: the cleft of the rock of Etam

Judges 15:11
HEB:סְעִיף֮ סֶ֣לַע עֵיטָם֒ וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לְשִׁמְשׁ֗וֹן
NAS: of the rock of Etam and said
KJV: of the rock Etam, and said
INT: the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson

1 Chronicles 4:3
HEB:וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ אֲבִ֣י עֵיטָ֔ם יִזְרְעֶ֥אל וְיִשְׁמָ֖א
NAS: [were] the sons of Etam: Jezreel,
KJV: And these [were of] the father of Etam; Jezreel,
INT: These the sons of Etam Jezreel Ishma

1 Chronicles 4:32
HEB: וְחַצְרֵיהֶם֙ עֵיטָ֣ם וָעַ֔יִן רִמּ֥וֹן
NAS: Their villages [were] Etam, Ain,
KJV: And their villages [were], Etam, and Ain,
INT: their villages Etam Ain Rimmon

2 Chronicles 11:6
HEB:לֶ֛חֶם וְאֶת־ עֵיטָ֖ם וְאֶת־ תְּקֽוֹעַ׃
NAS: Thus he built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
KJV: even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
INT: built Bethlehem Etam Tekoa

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