This word comes from the name of Atad.
Definition
from an unused root probably meaning to pierce or make fast; a thorn-tree (especially the buckthorn)
Traditional renderings: Atad, bramble, thorn.
Traditional renderings: Atad, bramble, thorn.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
6 total
- Genesis 50:10הָאָטָ֗ד · of AtadWhen they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
- Genesis 50:11הָֽאָטָ֔ד · at the threshing floor of AtadWhen the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.
- Judges 9:14הָאָטָ֑ד · the thornbushFinally all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘Come and reign over us.’
- Judges 9:15 (2×)הָאָטָד֮ · But the thornbush; הָ֣אָטָ֔ד · the thornbushBut the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
- Psalm 58:9אָטָ֑ד · [the burning] thornsBefore your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.