Atad
In Bible versions:
Atad: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
a thorn
a man who had a threshing floor
NET Glossary: Array
a man who had a threshing floor
NET Glossary: Array
Hebrew
Strongs #0329: tja 'atad
- 1) bramble, thorn, buckthorn
- 2) the threshing Atad, meaning thorn, also called Abelmizraim and afterwards called Bethhogla was located on the west of Jordan between the Jordan and Jericho
329 'atad aw-tawd'
from an unused root probably meaning to pierce or make fast; a thorn-tree (especially the buckthorn): KJV -- Atad, bramble, thorn.Atad [ebd]
buckthorn, a place where Joseph and his brethren, when on their way from Egypt to Hebron with the remains of their father Jacob, made for seven days a "great and very sore lamentation." On this account the Canaanites called it "Abel-mizraim" (Gen. 50:10, 11). It was probably near Hebron. The word is rendered "bramble" in Judg. 9:14, 15, and "thorns" in Ps. 58:9.
ATAD [smith]
(thorn), The threshing-floor of, called also Abel-mizraim, (Genesis 50:10,11) afterwards called Beth-hogla, and known to have lain between the Jordan and Jericho, therefore on the west side of Jordan.
