Lexical Definition

‎אָטָד‎ ʼâṭâd (aw-tawd') Atad ^H:N-M
from an unused root probably meaning to pierce or make fast

Atad, bramble, thorn.

• a thorn-tree (especially the buckthorn)

1) bramble, thorn, buckthorn
2) the threshing Atad, meaning thorn, also called Abelmizraim and afterwards called Bethhogla was located on the west of Jordan between the Jordan and Jericho

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אָטָד‎ noun masculine^{Judg 9:15} bramble, buck-thorn (compare Che Ps 58:10*) (rhamnus, Arabic Assyrian e‰idu see Dl^{W, No. 153}, Aramaic ‎אַטְדָּא‎ compare Löw^{No. 15}) contracted ‎עֵצִים‎ Judg 9:14; Judg 9:15 (twice in verse) (personified, in fable); Ps 58:10* as fuel (in figurative, compare Che); ‎׳‎‎כְּגֹרֶן הָא‎, noun, of a location, Gen 5:10; Gen 5:11 (see ‎גֹּרֶן‎ & ‎אבל מצרים‎).

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