Atad
ATAD
A Canaanite, at whose threshing-floor a solemn mourning was held over the remains of Jacob, on their way from Egypt to Hebron, Gen 50:10,11 . See ABEL-MIZRAIM.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Atad
(Hebrews Atad’, , a thorn; Sept. ), the person (B.C. 1856 or ante) on whose threshingfloor the sons of Jacob and the Egyptians who accompanied them performed their final act of solemn mourning for Jacob (Genesis 1, 10, 11); on which account the place was afterward called ABEL-MIZRAIM SEE ABEL-MIZRAIM (q.v.), the mourning of the Egyptians. Schwarz (Palest. p. 79) causes unnecessary difficulty by placing it east of the Jordan; whereas the expression beyond Jordan is to be understood with reference to a foreign approach from the east. According to Jerome (Onom. s.v. Area-atad), it was in his day called Bethgla or Bethacla (Beth-Hogla), a name which he connects with the gyratory dances or races of the funeral ceremony: locus gyri; eo quod ibi more plangentium circumierint. Beth-Hoglah is known to have lain between the Jordan and Jericho, therefore on the west side of Jordan SEE BETH-HOGLAH; and with this agrees the fact of the mention of the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, who were confined to the west side of the river (see, among others, Genesis 1, 10; Gen 11:13 of this chapter), and one of whose special haunts was the sunken district by the side’ of Jordan (Num 13:29). SEE CANAAN. The word , beyond, although usually signifying the east of Jordan, is yet used for either east or west, according to the position of the speaker. So Jerome quotes trans Jordanem; but Dr. Thompson, rejecting this authority, supposes Abel- mizraim to have been located near Hebron (Land and Book, 2, 385). Atad, as a name, is possibly only an appellative descriptive of a thorny locality ( =the floor [or trodden space] of the thorn). SEE JACOB.
Atad
SEE THORN.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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 Judg. 9:14, 15, and “thorns” in Ps. 58:9.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Atad
(“the floor of the thorn”.) A trodden space for threshing, beyond Jordan, where Joseph and his brethren and the Egyptian retinue made for seven days “great and very sore lamentation” over the body of Jacob, whence the Canaanites called the place Abel Mizraim, “the mourning of the Egyptians.” Canaan being the central standpoint of the sacred history, the E. of Jordan is naturally called “beyond Jordan.” The same route by which Joseph had been led captive was that by which the grand Egyptian procession doing honor to his deceased father proceeded. Grove however makes Atad W. of Jordan, as Jerome identifies it with Beth Hogla (the house of gyratory dances, or movements attendant on the funeral ceremony), known to lie between the Jordan and Jericho. The Canaanites, “the inhabitants of the land,” were on the W. of Jordan (compare Gen 50:13; Num 13:29). “Beyond Jordan” will thus be from the standpoint of the E. of Jordan, where Moses the writer was (Gen 50:10-11).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Atad
ATAD (Gen 50:10-11).A threshing-floor on the road to Hebron. The site is unknown.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Atad
atad (, ‘atadh, a thorn). See ABEL-MIZRAIM.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Atad
Atad, the person on whose threshing-floor the sons of Jacob and the Egyptians who accompanied them performed their final act of solemn mourning for Jacob (Gen 50:11); on which account the place was afterwards called Abel-Mizraim, ‘the mourning of the Egyptians.’
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Atad
[A’tad]
Place near the Jordan, where Joseph, his brethren, and the Egyptians made great lamentation at the burial of Jacob. The inhabitants of the land called it ABEL-MIZRAIM, q.v. Gen 50:10-11.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Atad
The place where the sons of Jacob mourned for their father.
Gen 50:10-11
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Atad
A’tad. (thorn). or the threshing-floor of Atad. Also called Abel-mizraim, Gen 50:10-11, afterwards called Beth-hogla, and known to have lain between the Jordan and Jericho, therefore on the west side of Jordan.