Word

אֵתָם

ʼÊthâm · H864 · Hebrew · proper noun · 4 occurrences

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Place

Ethamfirst named in Exodus 13:204 verses

Meanings

Etham

Location; in eastern Egypt near Succoth and on the edge of the desert; Israelites encamped there on their way from Egypt to Canaan; when setting out from Etham they turned back in the direction of Pi-Hahiroth; after having crossed the Sea of Reeds the Israelites pass through the desert of Etham

Examples
Exodus 13:20 Then they set out from Succoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.
Numbers 33:6 They journeyed from Succoth and camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.
Numbers 33:7 Then they journeyed from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon; and they camped before Migdol.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָצֶהend, edge, border 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 4
מִןfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מִדְבָּרwilderness, desert 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Locations003001010: אֵתָם (Etham) names a wilderness campsite on Israel's route out of Egypt, mentioned in both Exodus and Numbers' itinerary.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H864. Etham אֵתָם proper name, of a location (perhaps = Egyptian Chetem, compare EbGS 521…

H864. Etham
אֵתָם proper name, of a location (perhaps = Egyptian Chetem, compare EbGS 521 f. but ᵐ5 Ὀθομ, Ὀθωμ, compare LagBN 54) Exo 13:20 in Egypt, place on edge of desert, so Num 33:6-7, אֵתָם אִדְבַּר Num 33:8.
אַתֶּם see below אנת.
אֶתְמוֺל see below תמל.
אתן (meaning ? Thes compares Arabic take short steps, but this appy. only by-form of ).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Locations4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0