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Atad
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a man who had a threshing floor
a thorn
a thorn
Hebrew
Strongs #0329: tja 'atad
1) bramble, thorn, buckthorn2) the threshing Atad, meaning thorn, also called Abelmizraim
and afterwards called Bethhogla was located on the west of
Jordan between the Jordan and Jericho
329 'atad aw-tawd'
from an unused root probably meaning to pierce or make fast;a thorn-tree (especially the buckthorn):-Atad, bramble,
thorn.
Atad [EBD]
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.