Lexical Summary Atharim: a caravan route in the Negev Original Word: אֲתָרִיםTransliteration: Atharim Phonetic Spelling: (ath-aw-reem') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a caravan route in the Negev Meaning: Atharim -- a caravan route in the Negev Strong's Concordance spies Plural from an unused root (probably meaning to step); places; Atharim, a place near Palestine -- spies. Brown-Driver-Briggs H871. Atharim אֲתָרִים proper name, of a location only Numbers 21:1 הָא ׳דֶּרֶח; so ᵐ5, perhaps (Di) name of a caravan-route, compare vestige, footprint; others (after ᵑ6 ᵑ7) translate way of the spies (compare 13:22); but הָאֲתָרִים for הַתָּרִים is highly improbable, and a locality would hardly receive its designation from the spies. אתת (? √ of following, meaning dubious. LagM ii. 254 proposes √ אנה, whence he derives also Arabic a tool used in tillage). |
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