BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H67
a.vel mits.ra.yim — Abel-mizraim
Abel Mizraim = "meadow of Egypt" a place east of the Jordan (perhaps "as fertile as Egypt") Another name of a.tad (אָטָד "Atad" H0329G)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H329
a.tad — Atad
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" H0067)
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Meadow of Egypt, or mourning of Egypt, a place “beyond,” i.e., on the west of Jordan, at the “threshing-floor of Atad.” Here the Egyptians mourned seventy days for Jacob (Gen. 50:4-11). Its site is unknown.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
