Lexicon Pithom: a place in Egypt Original Word: פִּתֹםPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Pithom Phonetic Spelling: (pee-thome') Short Definition: Pithom NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof foreign origin Definitiona place in Eg. NASB TranslationPithom (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מִּתֹם proper name, of a location Pithom, Π( ε) ιθω, Α Πιθωμ (Egyptian Patum, Per-Atum, house of (god) Atum) one of the עָרֵי מִסְכְּנוֺת built by Israel for Pharaoh Exodus 1:11; identification by Naville with Tel el-Maskhkûta, near East end of Wady Tumilat, Naville Pithom, 1885 Di-Ry on the passage Di SBAk, 1885, 889 ff. Bäd Egypt (4). 159. פתן (√ of following; meaning dubious; HilprBabylonian Exped. University of Pennsylvania ix (1898), 53, compare Assyrian patânu, 'protect,' whence two following, 'serpent' as protector, and 'threshold' as asylum; plausible, but exact meaning of patânu still uncertain).
Strong's Pithom Of Egyptian derivation; Pithom, a place in Egypt -- Pithom. |
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