STRONGS NUMBER H871


Word Summary
Atharim: a caravan route in the Negev
Original Word: אֲתָרִים
Transliteration: Atharim
Phonetic Spelling: (ath-aw-reem')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a caravan route in the Negev
Meaning: Atharim -- a caravan route in the Negev
Strong's Concordance
spies

Plural from an unused root (probably meaning to step); places; Atharim, a place near Palestine -- spies.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H871. Atharim

אֲתָרִיםproper name, of a location only Numbers 21:1 הָא ׳דֶּרֶח‎; so ᵐ5‎, perhaps (Di) name of a caravan-route, compare vestige, footprint; others (after ᵑ6 ᵑ7‎) translate way of the spies (compare 13:22); but הָאֲתָרִים‎ for הַתָּרִים‎ is highly improbable, and a locality would hardly receive its designation from the spies.

אתת‎ (? √ of following, meaning dubious. LagM ii. 254 proposes √ אנה‎, whence he derives also Arabic a tool used in tillage).