Atad:
buckthorn, a place where Joseph and his brethren, when on their way from Egypt to Hebron with the remains of their father Jacob, made for seven days a "great and very sore lamentation." On this account the Canaanites called it "Abel-mizraim" (Gen 50:10,11). It was probably near Hebron. The word is rendered "bramble" in Jdg 9:14, 15, and "thorns" in Psa 58:9.
Atad:
a thorn
Atad:
(thorn) The threshing‐floor of, called also Abel‐mizraim (Genesis 50:10-11) afterwards called Beth‐hogla, and known to have lain between the Jordan and Jericho, therefore on the west side of Jordan.
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