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 · H7851
shit.tim — Shittim
Shittim = "the acacias" place of Israel's encampment between the conquest of the transjordanic region and crossing the Jordan into Canaan Also named: a.vel hash.shit.tim (אָבֵל הַשִּׁטִּים "Abel-shittim" H0063)
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H63
a.vel hash.shit.tim — Abel-shittim
Abel Shittim = "meadow of acacias" place in lowlands of Moab Another name of shit.tim (שִׁטִּים "Shittim" H7851G)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Acacias, also called “Abel-shittim” (Num. 33:49), a plain or valley in the land of Moab where the Israelites were encamped after their two victories over Sihon and Og, at the close of their desert wanderings, and from which Joshua sent forth two spies (q.v.) “secretly” to “view” the land and Jericho (Josh. 2:1).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
