עֵיטָםʻÊyṭâm

Etam, a place in Palestine

Pronunciation: ay-tawm' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5862

Meanings

1. a cliff (Judges 15:8; Judges 15:11)

2. city fortified by Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 11:6; Judges 15:8; 1 Chronicles 4:3)

3. in Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:32; Joshua 15:42)

Same root

עַיִטʻayiṭ · H5861a hawk or other bird of prey

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

Judges 15:8 So he attacked the Philistines with great fury and killed many of them. Then he went to live in a cave in the rock of Etam.
Judges 15:11 So 3,000 men of Judah went down to get Samson at the cave in the rock of Etam. They said to Samson, “Don’t you realize the Philistines rule over us? What are you doing to us?” But Samson replied, “I only did to them what they did to me.”
1 Chronicles 4:3 The descendants of Etam were Jezreel, Ishma, Idbash, their sister Hazzelelponi,
1 Chronicles 4:32 Their descendants also lived in Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token, and Ashan—five towns
2 Chronicles 11:6 He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

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).