Jattir
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Jattir: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
a remnant; excellent
a town in the hill country of Judah
a town in the hill country of Judah
Hebrew
Strongs #03492: ryty Yattiyr
Jattir = "plenty"1) a town in the mountains of Judah
3492 Yattiyr yat-teer'
from 3498; redundant; Jattir, a place in Palestine: KJV -- Jattir.see HEBREW for 03498
Jattir [ebd]
pre-eminent, a city in the mountains of Judah (Josh. 15:48; 21:14).
JATTIR [smith]
(pre-eminent), a town of Judah in the mountain districts, (Joshua 15:48) one of the group containing Socho, Eshtemoa, etc. See also (Joshua 21:14; 1Â Samuel 30:27; 1Â Chronicles 6:57) By Robinson it is identified with ?Attir , six miles north of Molada and ten miles south of Hebron.JATTIR [isbe]
JATTIR - jat'-er (yattir, and yattir): A town in the hill country of Judah, mentioned in conjunction with Shamir and Socoh (Josh 15:48); one of the cities given to the "children of Aaron the priest" (Josh 21:14; 1 Ch 6:57). David after his victory over the Amalekites sent a present of the spoil from Ziklag "to them that were in Jattir" (1 Sam 30:27).It is now Khirbet `Attir, an important ruin, in the extreme South of the hill country, 5 miles Southeast of edh Dhariyeh and 20 miles Southeast of Belt Jibrin. This must Correspond to the "very large village Jethira" which is mentioned in Eusebius, Onomasticon (119 27; 133 3; 134 24, etc.) as 20 miles Southeast of Eleutheropolis (i.e. Beit Jibrin). The site is full of caves. See PEF, III, 408, Sh XXV.
E. W. G. Masterman
