HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8483
תַּחְתִּים חׇדְשִׁי
tach.tim chod.shi — Kadesh
§ Tahtim-hodshi = "lowest-moon" a place near Gilead on the east of the Jordan
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Tahtim-hodshi
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
The land of the newly inhabited, (2 Sam. 24:6). It is conjectured that, instead of this word, the reading should be, “the Hittites of Kadesh,” the Hittite capital, on the Orontes. It was apparently some region east of the Jordan and north of Gilead.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
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