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title: אֲתָרִים — spies · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲתָרִים (871), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: spies. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲתָרִים

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«אֲתָרִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **spies** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 871 · **BDB:** אֲתָרִים

### Glosses

the.Atharim (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

spies [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/871/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/871/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. only Nu 21:1 דֶּרֶךְ הָא׳; so 𝔊, perhaps (Di) name of a caravan-route, cf. أَثَرٌ vestige, footprint; others (after 𝔗 𝔖) transl. way of the spies (cf. 13:2); but הָאֲתָרִים for הַתָּרִים is highly improbable, and a locality would hardly receive its designation from the spies.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲתָרִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/871/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 21:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.1/)

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וַיִּשְׁמַ֞ע הַכְּנַעֲנִ֤י מֶֽלֶךְ־עֲרָד֙ יֹשֵׁ֣ב הַנֶּ֔גֶב כִּ֚י בָּ֣א יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל דֶּ֖רֶךְ הָאֲתָרִ֑ים וַיִּלָּ֙חֶם֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיִּ֥שְׁבְּ ׀ מִמֶּ֖נּוּ שֶֽׁבִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard the Canaanite the.king of.Arad \[who\].dwelt the Negev (dm).that it.had.come Israel the.way of the.Atharim and he.engaged.in.battle against Israel and he.took.captive some of.it captive\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

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