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# אֵתָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H864

**Etham** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Etham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/864/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵתָם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/864/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (perhaps = Egyptian Chetem, cf. EbersGS 521 f. but 𝔊 Ὀθομ, Ὀθωμ, cf. LagBN 54) Ex 13:20 in Egypt, place on edge of desert, so Nu 33:6, 7; מִדְבַּר אֵתָם Nu 33:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Etham (3); of Etham (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 13:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.20/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִסֻּכֹּ֑ת וַיַּחֲנ֣וּ בְאֵתָ֔ם בִּקְצֵ֖ה הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Succoth and they.encamped at Etham on the.edge of the.wilderness

*JPS 1917:* And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

[Numbers 33:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.6/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִסֻּכֹּ֑ת וַיַּחֲנ֣וּ בְאֵתָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר בִּקְצֵ֥ה הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Succoth and they.encamped at Etham which \[is\].on the.edge of the.wilderness

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/864.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/864/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).