Topic
Jattir
4 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Joshua 15:48Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave A Levitical city
¶ And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
- Joshua 21:14Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave A Levitical city
And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
- 1 Samuel 30:27Smith · ISBE · Nave A Levitical city
To them which were in Beth-el, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
- 1 Chronicles 6:57Smith · ISBE · Nave A Levitical city
And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 2 references
Pre-eminent, a city in the mountains of Judah (Josh. 15:48; 21:14).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 4 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 4 references
jat'-er (yattir, 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 `Attir, an important ruin, in the extreme South of the hill country, 5 miles Southeast of edh Dhariyeh and 20 miles Southeast of Belt Jibrin. 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 Jibrin). The site is full of caves. See PEF, III, 408, Sh XXV.
E. W. G. Masterman
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.