Adithaim

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A town in Judah, on a height overlooking the shephelah or low hill country ( Joshua 15:36). Probably the same as that called later Hadid and Adida. Vespasian used the latter as one of his outposts in besieging Jerusalem.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Joshua 15:36

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ADITHAIM ( Joshua 15:36 ). A town of Judah in the Shephelah. The site is unknown.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Town in the tribe of Judah. Joshua 15:36 . It cannot be identified.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Aditha'im. (double ornament). A town belonging to Judah, lying in the low country, and named, between Sharaim and hag-Gederah, in Joshua 15:36 only.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ad -i -thā´im ( עדיתים , ‛ădhı̄thayim "double ornament, passage, or prey"): A city in "the lowland" (Shephelah, not as the King James Version " valley ") of Judah ( Joshua 15:36 ). Site unknown, but possibly same as Adida (which see).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Aditha ’ yim, עֲדַיתִיַם , double prey or double ornament; Sept. Ἀδιαθάϊμ, but some copies omit; Vulg. Adithaim), a town in the plain of Judah, mentioned between Sharaim and Gederah ( Joshua 15:36). Eusebius (Onomast. s.v.) mentions two places of the name of Adatha ( Ἀδαθά, Jerome, Aditha and Adia), one near Gaza, and the other near Diospolis (Lydda); the former being commonly supposed to be the same with Adithaim, and the latter with Hadid; and probably corresponding respectively to the two places called Adida (q.v.) by Josephus. Schwarz (Palest. p. 102) accordingly thinks that Adithaim is represented by the modern village Eddis, 5 Eng. miles east of Gaza (comp. Robinson ’ s Researches, 2, 370 sq.); but this is too far from the associated localities of the same group, (See Tribe),which require a position not far from Moneisin, a village with traces of antiquity, about 5 miles south of Ekron (Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 114).