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Atad
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, Gen 50:11). It was probably near Hebron. The word is rendered “bramble” in Judg 9:14, Judg 9:15, and “thorns” in Ps 58:9.
Named in the Bible
2 verses
- Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
- Genesis 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
