Jattir
Jattir
(Heb. Yattir’, [in Jos 15:48, elsewhere defectively ], pre-eminent; Sept. or ), a city in the mountains of Judah (Jos 15:48, where it is named between Shamir and Socoh) assigned to the priests (Jos 21:14; 1Ch 6:57). It was one of the places in the south where David used to haunt in his freebooting days, and to his friends in which he sent gifts from the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah (1Sa 30:27). The two Ithrite heroes of David’s guard (2Sa 23:38; 1Ch 11:40) were possibly from Jattir, living memorials to him of his early difficulties. According to Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Jether), it was in their day a very large hamlet inhabited by Christians, twenty Roman miles from Eleutheropolis, in the district of the Daroma, near Molatha (Reland, Palcest. p. 885). It is named by Hap-Parchi, the Jewish traveler; but the passage is defective, and little can be gathered from it (Zunz, in Asher’s Benj. of Tudela, 2, 442). The required position answers nearly to that of the modern village of Attir, discovered by Dr. Robinson (Researches, 2, 194, 625) in this region, marked by caves upon a hill (comp. Wilson, Lands of Bible, i, 353), and situated fifteen miles south of Hebron, and five north of Moladah (Schwarz, Palestine, p. 105). It contains extensive ruins (Tristram, Land of Israel, p. 388).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Jattir (2)
The modern representative of this, Khurbet Attir, lies four and a quarter miles south-east of ed-Dhoheriyeh, and nine and three quarter miles north of Tell Milh (Moladah), and is thus described in the Memoirs accompanying the Ordnance Survey (3:408): “Foundations, and heaps of stones; a great many caves; a ruined masonry tomb; several fallen pillar- shafts and cisterns. There is a kubbeh [dome] at the ruin, which stands on a knoll. Many of the caves have masonry arches to the doors. A large building remains, four courses of the wall being left. Below the ruins on the hill-side is a large oil-press.”
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Jattir
pre-eminent, a city in the mountains of Judah (Josh. 15:48; 21:14).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Jattir
A town in the hills of Judah (Jos 15:48), one of the nine allotted to the sons of Aaron (Jos 21:14; 1Ch 6:57). David sent presents there, from the Amalekite spoil (1Sa 30:27). Now ‘Attir, 10 miles S. of Hebron. The Ithrites Ira and Gareb were probably from Jattir.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Jattir
JATTIR.A town of Judah in the southern mountains, a Levitical city (Jos 15:48; Jos 21:14, 1Ch 6:42). It was one of the cities to whose elders David sent of the spoil from Ziklag (1Sa 30:27). Its site is the ruin Attr, N.E. of Beersheba, on a hill spur close to the southern desert.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Jattir
jater (, yattr, and , yattir): A town in the hill country of Judah, mentioned in conjunction with Shamir and Socoh (Jos 15:48); one of the cities given to the children of Aaron the priest (Jos 21:14; 1Ch 6:57). David after his victory over the Amalekites sent a present of the spoil from Ziklag to them that were in Jattir (1Sa 30:27).
It is now Khirbet Attr, an important ruin, in the extreme South of the hill country, 5 miles Southeast of edh Dharyeh and 20 miles Southeast of Beit Jibrn. This must correspond to the very large village Jethira which is mentioned in Eusebius, Onomasticon (119 27; 133 3; 134 24, etc.) as 20 miles Southeast of Eleutheropolis (i.e. Beit Jibrn). The site is full of caves. See PEF, III, 408, Sh XXV.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Jattir
[Jat’tir]
City in the highlands of Judah, allotted to the priests. Jos 15:48; Jos 21:14; 1Sa 30:27; 1Ch 6:57. Identified with ruins at Attir, 31 22′ N, 35 E.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Jattir
H3492
A Levitical city.
Jos 15:48; Jos 21:14; 1Sa 30:27; 1Ch 6:57
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Jattir
Jat’tir. (pre-eminent). A town of Judah, in the mountain districts, Jos 15:48, one of the group containing Socho, Eshtemoa, etc. See also Jos 21:14; 1Sa 30:27; 1Ch 6:57. By Robinson, it is identified with ‘Attir, six miles north of Molada and ten miles south of Hebron.