אָטָדʼâṭâd

bramble, buck-thorn (Judges 9:15; Psalms 58:10; Judges 9:14; Genesis 5:10; Genesis 5:11)

Pronunciation: aw-tawd' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H329

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 50:10 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father.
  • Genesis 50:11 The local residents, the Canaanites, watched them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. Then they renamed that place (which is near the Jordan) Abel-mizraim, for they said, “This is a place of deep mourning for these Egyptians.”
  • Judges 9:14 “Then all the trees finally turned to the thornbush and said, ‘Come, you be our king!’
  • Judges 9:15 And the thornbush replied to the trees, ‘If you truly want to make me your king, come and take shelter in my shade. If not, let fire come out from me and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’”
  • Psalms 58:9 God will sweep them away, both young and old, faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).