עֵיטָם
e.tam
“Etam”
Definition
Etam, a place in Palestine
from H5861 (עַיִט); hawk-ground;
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun
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Occurrences
עֵיטָם appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And their sister was named Hazzelelponi.
And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five towns—
He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock 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.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.