Lexical Definition

‎עֲטָרוֹת‎ ʻĂṭârôwth (at-aw-roth') Ataroth ^N:N--L
or עֲטָרֹת ʻĂṭârôth (at-awroth'); plural of ‎עֲטָרָה‎

Ataroth.

• § Ataroth = "crowns"
• Ataroth, the name (thus simply) of two places in Palestine

1) a town east of the Jordan in Gilead, taken and built by the tribe of Gad
2) a place on the boundary of Ephraim and Manasseh
3) a place between Ephraim and Benjamin

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎עֲטָרוֺת‎ and (Num 32:34) ‎עֲטָרֹת‎ proper name, of a location Αταρωθ, etc.:

1. East of Jordan (MI^{10, 11}); —
a. Num 32:3 (+ ‎דִּיבוֺן‎, etc.) — modern A‰‰arûs, approximately 8 miles north-northwest from Dibon — built by Gad Num 32:34 (+ ‎׳‎‎ד‎, ‎עֲרֹעֵר‎, and also)
b. ‎עַטְרֹת שׁוֺפָן‎ vNum 32:35 (Samaritan ‎שפים‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎, see Di; site unknown).

2. west of Jordan, conjectures as to sites see in Di Buhl^{Geogr. 172:}
a. on border between Ephraim and Benjamin Josh 16:2, = ‎עַטְרוֺת‎ ‎אַדָּר‎ vJosh 16:5; Josh 18:13.
b. on east border of Ephraim Josh 16:7.
c. ‎עַטְרוֺת בֵּית יוֺאָב‎ 1Chr 2:54 in Judah; a 'son' of Salma (+ Bethlehem, al.).

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