Lexicon Atharim: a caravan route in the Negev Original Word: אֲתָרִיםPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Atharim Phonetic Spelling: (ath-aw-reem') Short Definition: Atharim NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona caravan route in the Negev NASB TranslationAtharim (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אֲתָרִים proper name, of a location only Numbers 21:1 ׳דֶּרֶח הָא; so ᵐ5, perhaps (Di) name of a caravan-route, compare  vestige, footprint; others (after ᵑ7 ᵑ6) translate way of the spies (compare Numbers 13:22); but הָאֲתָרִים for הַתָּרִים is highly improbable, and a locality would hardly receive its designation from the spies. אתת (? √ of following, meaning dubious. LagM ii. 254 proposes √ אנה, whence he derives also Arabic  a tool used in tillage).
Strong's spies Plural from an unused root (probably meaning to step); places; Atharim, a place near Palestine -- spies. |
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