Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #7851 - שִׁטִּים Shittim (a place East of the Jordan)

Original Word:	שִׁטִּים
Transliteration:	Shittim
Definition:	a place East of the Jordan, also a wadi perhaps West of Jer
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:	(shit-teem')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Shittim

The same as the plural of shittah; acacia trees; Shittim, a place East of the Jordan -- Shittim.

see HEBREW shittah

Englishman's Concordance

Shittim=“the acacias”
1) place of Israel’s encampment between the conquest of the transjordanic region and crossing the Jordan into Canaan
2) a place west of Jerusalem
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: the same as the plural of H7848

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שִׁטִּיםproper name, of a location always ׳הַשּׁ; usually Σαττειν:

1East of Jordan, Joshua 2:1; Joshua 3:1 (E), Micah 6:5; Numbers 25:1 (P);=׳אָבֵל הַשּׁNumbers 33:49; on exact site see Buhl^{G 116} Gray^{Numbers 25:1.}

2׳נַחַל הַשּׁ Joel 4:18 (perhaps Wady es-San‰, west of Jerusalem, compare We Buhl^{Geogr. 90, and views in} Dr).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 7851. שִׁטִּים (Shittim) — 5 Occurrences

Numbers 25:1
HEB:וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּשִּׁטִּ֑ים וַיָּ֣חֶל הָעָ֔ם
NAS: remained at Shittim, the people
KJV: abode in Shittim, and the people
INT: remained Israel Shittim began the people

Joshua 2:1
HEB:נ֠וּן מִֽן־ הַשִּׁטִּ֞ים שְׁנַֽיִם־ אֲנָשִׁ֤ים
NAS: secretly from Shittim, saying,
KJV: of Nun sent out of Shittim two men
INT: of Nun from Shittim two men

Joshua 3:1
HEB:בַּבֹּ֜קֶר וַיִּסְע֣וּ מֵֽהַשִּׁטִּ֗ים וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ עַד־
NAS: set out from Shittim and came
KJV: and they removed from Shittim, and came
INT: the morning set Shittim and came against

Joel 3:18
HEB:אֶת־ נַ֥חַל הַשִּׁטִּֽים׃
NAS: To water the valley of Shittim.
KJV: and shall water the valley of Shittim.
INT: to water the valley of Shittim

Micah 6:5
HEB:בְּע֑וֹר מִן־ הַשִּׁטִּים֙ עַד־ הַגִּלְגָּ֔ל
NAS: answered him, [And] from Shittim to Gilgal,
KJV: answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal;
INT: of Beor at Shittim against to Gilgal

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