Strong H329H329Gאָטָד
Atad
One of the 2 senses of Strong H329
- Transliteration
- 'âţâd
- Pronunciation
- aw-tawd
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
Atad, a threshing floor
afterwards called Bethhogla was located on the west of Jordan between the Jordan and Jericho
Also named: a.vel mits.ra.yim (אָבֵל מִצְרַיִם "Abel-mizraim" H67)
afterwards called Bethhogla was located on the west of Jordan between the Jordan and Jericho
Also named: a.vel mits.ra.yim (אָבֵל מִצְרַיִם "Abel-mizraim" H67)
General definition
From an unused root probably meaning to pierce or make fast; a thorn tree (especially the buckthorn): - {Atad} {bramble} thorn.
In the biblical story
Atad
Threshing floor where Egyptians mourned Jacob
Atad was a threshing floor near the Jordan River where the Egyptians mourned Jacob's death.
In the Bible
Strong H329G appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- atad2
First verses
- Genesis 50:10And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
- Genesis 50:11And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel–mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.