Etam:
(lair of wild beasts).
(1.) A village of the tribe of Simeon, specified only in the list in 1 Chronicles 4:32; compare Josh 19:7.
(2.) A place in Judah, fortified and garrisoned by Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 11:6). Here, according to the statements of Josephus and the Talmudists, were the sources of the water from which Solomon's gardens and the pleasure‐grounds were fed, and Bethlehem and the temple supplied.
(3.) A name occurring in the lists of Judah's descendents (1 Chronicles 4:3) but probably referring to the last mentioned place.
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