Keraia
Lexicon

עֵיטָם

e.tamEtam
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place5 occurrences3 books5 verses
This name belongs to 3 different places in the Bible:
  • Etam: Villages associated with Simeon; home of Judahite clan
  • Etam: City fortified by Rehoboam in Judah
  • Etam: Cliff where Samson hid after defeating the Philistines

Definition

from H5861; hawk-ground; Etam, a place in Palestine
Traditional renderings: Etam.

Glossary entries

Etam

Where it occurs

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

5 total
  1. Judges 15:8עֵיטָֽם׃ס · of Etam
    And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
  2. Judges 15:11עֵיטָם֒ · of Etam
    In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
  3. 1 Chronicles 4:3עֵיטָ֔ם · of Etam
    These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And their sister was named Hazzelelponi.
  4. 1 Chronicles 4:32עֵיטָ֣ם · were Etam
    And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five towns—
  5. 2 Chronicles 11:6עֵיטָ֖ם · Etam
    He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,