Atad

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("the floor of the thorn".) A trodden space for threshing, beyond Jordan, where Joseph and his brethren and the Egyptian retinue made for seven days "great and very sore lamentation" over the body of Jacob, whence the Canaanites called the place Abel Mizraim, "the mourning of the Egyptians." Canaan being the central standpoint of the sacred history, the E. of Jordan is naturally called "beyond Jordan." The same route by which Joseph had been led captive was that by which the grand Egyptian procession doing honor to his deceased father proceeded. Grove however makes Atad W. of Jordan, as Jerome identifies it with Beth Hogla (the house of gyratory dances, or movements attendant on the funeral ceremony), known to lie between the Jordan and Jericho. The Canaanites, "the inhabitants of the land," were on the W. of Jordan (compare  Genesis 50:13;  Numbers 13:29). "Beyond Jordan" will thus be from the standpoint of the E. of Jordan, where Moses the writer was ( Genesis 50:10-11).

Smith's Bible Dictionary

A'tad. (Thorn). or The Threshing-Floor Of Atad . Also called Abel-mizraim,  Genesis 50:10-11, afterwards called Beth-Hogla , and known to have lain between the Jordan and Jericho, therefore on the west side of Jordan.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Place near the Jordan, where Joseph, his brethren, and the Egyptians made great lamentation at the burial of Jacob. The inhabitants of the land called it Abel-Mizraim q.v.   Genesis 50:10,11 .

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

A Canaanite, at whose threshing-floor a solemn mourning was held over the remains of Jacob, on their way from Egypt to Hebron,  Genesis 50:10,11 . See ABEL-MIZRAIM.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 50:10,11 Judges 9:14,15 Psalm 58:9

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ATAD (  Genesis 50:10-11 ). A threshing-floor on the road to Hebron. The site is unknown.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 50:10-11Abel-Mizraim

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrews Atad', אָטָד , a Thorn; Sept. Ἀτάδ ) , the person (B.C. 1856 or ante) on whose threshingfloor the sons of Jacob and the Egyptians who accompanied them performed their final act of solemn mourning for Jacob (Genesis 1, 10, 11); on which account the place was afterward called ABEL-MIZRAIM (See Abel-Mizraim) (q.v.), "the mourning of the Egyptians." Schwarz (Palest. p. 79) causes unnecessary difficulty by placing it East of the Jordan; whereas the expression "Beyond Jordan" is to be understood with reference to a foreign approach from the east. According to Jerome (Onom. S.V. Area-Atad), it was in his day called Bethgla or Bethacla (Beth-Hogla), a name which he connects with the gyratory dances or races of the funeral ceremony: " ‘ locus gyri; eo quod ibi more plangentium circumierint." Beth-Hoglah is known to have lain between the Jordan and Jericho, therefore on the west side of Jordan (See Beth-Hoglah); and with this agrees the fact of the mention of the Canaanites, "the inhabitants of the land," who were confined to the west side of the river (see, among others, Genesis 1, 10;  Genesis 11:13 of this chapter), and one of whose special haunts was the sunken district "by the ‘ side' of Jordan" ( Numbers 13:29). (See Canaan). The word עֶבֶר , "beyond," although usually signifying the east of Jordan, is yet used for either east or west, according to the position of the speaker. So Jerome quotes "Trans Jordanem;" but Dr. Thompson, rejecting this authority, supposes Abel- mizraim to have been located near Hebron (Land And Book, 2, 385). Atad, as a name, is possibly only an appellative descriptive of a "thorny" locality ( גֹּרֵן הָאָטָד ="the floor [or trodden space] of the thorn"). (See Jacob).

(See Thorn).

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

At´ad, the person on whose threshing-floor the sons of Jacob and the Egyptians who accompanied them performed their final act of solemn mourning for Jacob ( Genesis 50:11); on which account the place was afterwards called Abel-Mizraim, 'the mourning of the Egyptians.'

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ā´tad ( אטד , 'āṭādh , "a thorn"). See Abel-Mizraim .