Atad
“a thorn” Hitchcock's 18692 mentions, all in Genesis
Where it is
No coordinates are recorded for this place. · Located through Abel-mizraim
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Mentioned most in
Counted from 2 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
Every mention
2 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Genesis 2 mentions
Genesis 50:10They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.Genesis 50:11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel…
What the dictionary says
Buckthorn, a place where Joseph and his brethren, when on their way from Egypt to Hebron with the remains of their father Jacob, made for seven days a “great…
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Read the article →Sources
- OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0 · www.openbible.info/geo/
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · Public domain