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# עֵיטָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5862

**Etam** — used 5 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

Etam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5862/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵיטָם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5862/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (perhaps animal-name, from עַיִט, cf. GrayProp. Names 93);— Ηταμ, 𝔊L Ιταμ, a cliff, סְעִיף סֶלַע ע׳ Ju 15:8, 11 perhaps near town עֵיטָם, v. foll., but at ʿArāḳ Ismaʿīn near edge of Shephelah, WSW. from Jerus. according to SchickZPV x (1887), 143 ff. Αιταν\[μ\], etc., city fortified by Rehob. 2 Ch 11:6, between Bethlehem and Tekoa, = ʿAinʿAtān c. 2 miles SSW. from B., BuhlGeogr.92 GFM Ju 15:8, near Ŭrtâs RobBR i. 477; clan in Judah 1 Ch 4:3. Αιταν\[μ\], in Simeon 1 Ch 4:32 (Be \[not Oettli Kau Kit\] reads עֵתֶר from Jos 15:42).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 11:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.6/#tree)

וַיִּ֧בֶן אֶת־בֵּֽית־לֶ֛חֶםבֵּֽית־לֶ֛חֶם וְאֶת־עֵיטָ֖ם וְאֶת־תְּקֽוֹעַ׃

*Word for word:* and he.built (et) Bethlehem Bethlehem and (et) Etam and (et) Tekoa

*JPS 1917:* He built even Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

[1 Chronicles 4:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.32/#tree)

וְחַצְרֵיהֶם֙ עֵיטָ֣ם וָעַ֔יִן רִמּ֥וֹן וְתֹ֖כֶן וְעָשָׁ֑ן עָרִ֖ים חָמֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and villages their \[were\].Etam and Ain Rimmon and Tochen and Ashan cities five

*JPS 1917:* And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5862.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5862/): 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).