Difference between revisions of "Jattir"

<p> '''Jat'tir.''' ''(pre-eminent).'' [[A]] town of Judah, in the mountain districts, &nbsp;Joshua 15:48, one of the group containing Socho, Eshtemoa, etc. See also &nbsp;Joshua 21:14; &nbsp;1 Samuel 30:27; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:57. By Robinson, it is identified with '''Attir'' , six miles north of Molada and ten miles south of Hebron. </p>

<p> <strong> [[Jattir]] </strong> . [[A]] town of Judah in the southern mountains, a [[Levitical]] city (&nbsp; Joshua 15:48; &nbsp; Joshua 21:14 , &nbsp; 1 Chronicles 6:42 ). It was one of the cities to whose elders David sent of the spoil from [[Ziklag]] (&nbsp; 1 Samuel 30:27 ). Its site is the ruin <em> ‘Attîr </em> , [[N.E.]] of Beersheba, on a hill spur close to the southern desert. </p>

<p> [[A]] town in the hills of Judah (&nbsp;Joshua 15:48), one of the nine allotted to the sons of Aaron (&nbsp;Joshua 21:14; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:57). David sent presents there, from the [[Amalekite]] spoil (&nbsp;1 Samuel 30:27). Now 'Attir, 10 miles [[S.]] of Hebron. The [[Ithrites]] [[Ira]] and [[Gareb]] were probably from Jattir. </p>

<p> City in the highlands of Judah, allotted to the priests. &nbsp;Joshua 15:48; &nbsp;Joshua 21:14; &nbsp;1 Samuel 30:27; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:57 . Identified with ruins at <i> Attir, </i> 31 22' [[N,]] 35 [[E.]] </p>

<p> (Heb. Yattir', יִתַּיר [in &nbsp;Joshua 15:48, elsewhere "defectively" יִתַּר ], ''pre-eminent;'' Sept. Ι᾿εθέρ or Ι᾿έθερ), a city in the mountains of Judah (&nbsp;Joshua 15:48, where it is named between [[Shamir]] and Socoh) assigned to the priests (&nbsp;Joshua 21:14; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:57). It was one of the places in the south where David used to haunt in his freebooting days, and to his friends in which he sent gifts from the spoil of the enemies of [[Jehovah]] (&nbsp;1 Samuel 30:27). The two [[Ithrite]] heroes of David's guard (&nbsp;2 Samuel 23:38; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 11:40) were possibly from Jattir, living memorials to him of his early difficulties. According to [[Eusebius]] and [[Jerome]] (Onomast. s.v. Jether), it was in their day a very large hamlet inhabited by Christians, twenty Roman miles from Eleutheropolis, in the district of the Daroma, near Molatha (Reland, Palcest. p. 885). It is named by Hap-Parchi, the [[Jewish]] traveler; but the passage is defective, and little can be gathered from it (Zunz, in Asher's Benj. of Tudela, 2, 442). The required position answers nearly to that of the modern village of ‘ Attir, discovered by Dr. Robinson (Researches, 2, 194, 625) in this region, "marked by caves upon a hill" (comp. Wilson, Lands of Bible, i, 353), and situated fifteen miles south of Hebron, and five north of [[Moladah]] (Schwarz, Palestine, p. 105). It contains extensive ruins (Tristram, Land of Israel, p. 388). </p>

<p> ''''' jat´ẽr ''''' ( יתּיר , <i> ''''' yattı̄r ''''' </i> , and יתּר , <i> ''''' yattir ''''' </i> ): [[A]] town in the hill country of Judah, mentioned in conjunction with Shamir and [[Socoh]] (&nbsp; Joshua 15:48 ); one of the cities given to the "children of Aaron the priest" (&nbsp;Joshua 21:14; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:57 ). David after his victory over the [[Amalekites]] sent a present of the spoil from Ziklag "to them that were in Jattir" (&nbsp;1 Samuel 30:27 ). </p> <p> It is now <i> ''''' Khirbet ‛Attı̂r ''''' </i> , an important ruin, in the extreme South of the hill country, 5 miles Southeast of <i> ''''' edh Dharı̂yeh ''''' </i> and 20 miles Southeast of <i> ''''' Beit Jibrı̂n ''''' </i> . This must correspond to the "very large village Jethira" which is mentioned in Eusebius, <i> Onomasticon </i> (119 27; 133 3; 134 24, etc.) as 20 miles Southeast of [[Eleutheropolis]] (i.e. <i> ''''' Beit Jibrı̂n ''''' </i> ). The site is full of caves. See <i> Pef </i> , [[Iii,]] 408, Sh Xxv . </p>