the Week of Proper 3 / Ordinary 8
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Strong's #5852 - עֲטָרֹת
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Ataroth = “crowns”
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
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1 East of Jordan (MI10,11); —
a. Numbers 32:3 (+ דִּיבוֺן, etc.) — modern A‰‰arûs, approximately 8 miles north-northwest from Dibon — built by Gad Numbers 32:34 (+ ׳ד, עֲרֹעֵר, and also)
b.עַטְרֹת שׁוֺפָן Numbers 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 Joshua 16:2, = עַטְרוֺתאַדָּר Joshua 16:5; Joshua 18:13.
b. on east border of Ephraim Joshua 16:7.
c. עַטְרוֺת בֵּית יוֺאָב 1 Chronicles 2:54 in Judah; a 'son' of Salma (+ Bethlehem, al.).
עטשׁ (√ of following; Late Hebrew עָטַשׁ sneeze; Aramaic 
in derivative noun; Arabic 
id., Ethiopic [
], 
, 
sneezing).
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