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Strong's #5862 - עֵיטָם
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Etam = “lair of wild beasts”
1) a village of the tribe of Simeon
2) a town in Judah fortified and garrisoned by king Rehoboam of Judah and located between Bethlehem and Tekoa
3) a cliff; site uncertain
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1 Ηταμ, ᵐ5 L Ιταμ, a. cliff, ׳סְעִיף סֶלַע ע Judges 15:8,11perhaps near town עֵיטָם, see following, but at ±Ar¹‡ Isma±£n near edge of Shephelah, west-southwest from Jerusalem according to Schick ZPV x (1887), 143ff.
2 Αιταν[μ], etc., city fortified by Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 11:6, between Bethlehem and Tekoa, = ±Ain ±At¹n approximately 2miles south-southwest from Bethlehem, Buhl Geogr. 92 GFM Judges 15:8, near Urtâs Rob BR i. 477; clan in Judah 1 Chronicles 4:3.
3 Αιταν[μ], in Simeon 1 Chronicles 4:32 (Be [not Oettli Kau Kit] reads עֵתֶר from Joshua 15:42).
עֵיטָם (“a place of ravenous creatures”), [Etam], pr.n. of a town in the tribe of Judah, 1 Chronicles 4:3, 32 1 Chronicles 4:32; 2 Chronicles 11:6 and of a rock near it, Judges 15:8, 11 Judges 15:11.
