ETHAM (Heb. 'Ethām). - The second stage or station of the Israelites on their journey toward the Promised Land (Ex. 13:20; Num. 33:6). The name is probably the Hebraized form of the Egyptian htm "fortress," and would indicate the place called Serapeum north of the Great Bitter Lake, the junction of all the roads toward the center and the south of the Sinai peninsula, where Ramses II had built a fortress to defend the canal of Teku. The locality was located "on the edge of the desert" of Shur (Ex. 15:21; Num. 38:8) which extended to the east of the great wall (Heb. ṣār) protecting the isthmus of Suez.
BibliographyC. Bourdon, in Rev. bibl., 41 (1932), pp. 372, 543.
BIBL.: C. Bourdon, in Rev. bibl., 41 (1932), pp. 372, 543.
Baldi, Donato. “Etham (Ebr. 'EthĀM).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 672. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/etham-ebr-etham.
MLA
Baldi, Donato. “Etham (Ebr. 'EthĀM).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 672. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/etham-ebr-etham.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_etham_ebr_etham,
author = {Baldi, Donato},
title = {Etham (Ebr. 'EthĀM)},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {672},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/etham-ebr-etham}
}
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