Bible Location

Ataroth

Meaning: crowns · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available

This Ataroth entry refers to the eastern town near Gilead in the transjordanian lands. It is important because it appears in the settlement requests of Gad and Reuben. First appears in Num 32:3.1

Place meaning

crowns

Coordinates

31.60, 35.70

First appears

Num 32:3

AI summary: This eastern Ataroth belongs to the world of pasture, conquest, and requested inheritance beyond the Jordan. Numbers places it among the towns sought and built in the transjordanian region. The cross references present this Ataroth as an eastern settlement in the formation of Israel's transjordanian holdings.1

Place meaning

crowns

Latitude

31.60

Longitude

35.70

Bible references

2