Bible Location
Meaning: crowns · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
This Ataroth entry refers to the border town between Ephraim and Benjamin. It is important because it helps define central tribal boundaries in the hill country. First appears in Josh 16:2.1
AI summary: Ataroth here is a boundary marker rather than a large narrative center. Joshua uses it to trace the dividing line between Ephraim and Benjamin with precision. The cross references present this Ataroth as a central border-town of tribal definition.1
A town on the border of Ephraim and Benjamin (Josh. 16:2, 7), called also Ataroth-adar (16:5). Now ed-Da’rieh. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.