אָטָד
a.tad
“Atad”
Definition
a thorn-tree (especially the buckthorn)
from an unused root probably meaning to pierce or make fast;
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
אָטָד appears 4 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
When 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.
When 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.
Finally all the trees said to the thornbush,‘Come and reign over us.’
But 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 thornbushand consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.