Atad

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Atad, a thorn