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# אֲתָרִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H871

**spies** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

spies [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/871/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲתָרִים: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/871/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. only Nu 21:1 דֶּרֶךְ הָא׳; so 𝔊, perhaps (Di) name of a caravan-route, cf. أَثَرٌ vestige, footprint; others (after 𝔗 𝔖) transl. way of the spies (cf. 13:2); but הָאֲתָרִים for הַתָּרִים is highly improbable, and a locality would hardly receive its designation from the spies.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.1/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֞ע הַכְּנַעֲנִ֤י מֶֽלֶךְ־עֲרָד֙ יֹשֵׁ֣ב הַנֶּ֔גֶב כִּ֚י בָּ֣א יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל דֶּ֖רֶךְ הָאֲתָרִ֑ים וַיִּלָּ֙חֶם֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיִּ֥שְׁבְּ ׀ מִמֶּ֖נּוּ שֶֽׁבִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard the Canaanite the.king of.Arad \[who\].dwelt the Negev (dm).that it.had.come Israel the.way of the.Atharim and he.engaged.in.battle against Israel and he.took.captive some of.it captive\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/871/): 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).