Pirathon
Bible Usage:
- Pirathon used once.
- Bible Reference: Judges 12:15
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: Yes
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: Yes
- Included in Websters: No
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H6552 Used 1 time
Prince, or summit, a place "in the land of Ephraim" (Judges 12:15), now Fer'on, some 10 miles south-west of Shechem. This was the home of Abdon the judge.
his dissipation or deprivation; his rupture
A place in the land of Ephraim
Judges 12:15
Men of
Judges 12:13; 2 Samuel 23:30; 1 Chronicles 11:31; 1 Chronicles 27:14
(princely), "in the land of Ephraim in the mount of the Amalekite," a place in (Judges 12:15) Its site, now called Fer'ata , is about one mile and a half south of the road from Jaffa, by Hableh , to Nablus . Pirathonites are mentioned in (Judges 12:13,15) and 1 Chronicles 27:14
1. Abdon, the son of Hillel, so called, Judges 12:13, 15.
2. Benaiah the Ephraimite (2 Samuel 23:30), one of David's thirty heroes.
See Pirathon
Pirathon
a native of or dweller in Pirathon. Two such are named in the Bible:
- Abdon ben-Hillel. (Judges 12:13,15)
- "Benaiah the Pirathonite of the children of Ephraim," (1 Chronicles 27:14)