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HebrewH7851Noun

שִׁטִּים

shit.tim

4Occurrences
H7851Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shittim, a place East of the Jordan

the same as the plural of H7848 (שִׁטָּה); acacia trees;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Shittim = "the acacias" place of Israel's encampment between the conquest of the transjordanic region and crossing the Jordan into Canaan Also named: a.vel hash.shit.tim (*אָבֵל הַשִּׁטִּים *"Abel-shittim" H0063)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

שִׁטִּים appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
2
Micah
1
Numbers
1

Key Passages

Joshua 2:1BSB

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

Joshua 3:1BSB

Early the next morning Joshua got up and left Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.

Micah 6:5BSB

My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseledand what Balaam son of Beor answered.Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal,so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”

Numbers 25:1BSB

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.