| | Hatab_ (??) | | ʾAsîret el Hatab, near | | | | Shechem, on the north. | | | | (_Mem._ II. 155; Sh. | | | | XI.) | | | | =ETAM= (1) |1 Chr. iv. 32 |_Kh. ʾAitûn_ |13 |The present ruin | | (?)* | | ʾAitûn, south-west | | | | of Hebron, of the | | | | tribe of Simeon. | | | | (_Mem._ III. 261; Sh. | | | | XX.)--Conder. | | | | =ETAM= (2) |2 Chr. xi. 6; |_ʾAin ʾAtân_* |14 |Probably the village | 1 Chr. iv. 3 | | | Urtâs, south of | | | | Bethlehem, near | | | | which is the spring | | | | called ʾAin ʾAtân. | | | | (_Mem._ III. 43; Sh. | | | | XVII.)--Conder. | | | | =ETAM=, The Rock|Judg. xv. 8 |_Beit ʾAtâb_ |14 |The rocky top on which | | (?)* | | Beit ʾAtâb stands, | | | | west of Bethlehem. | | | | (_Mem._ III. 83; Sh. | | | | XVII.)--Conder. | | | | =ETHAM= |Exod. xiii. |_Not |-- |One of the stations | 20; Num. | identified_ | | of the Israelites | xxxiii. 6 | | | ‘on the edge of the | | | | wilderness.’ | | | | =ETHER= |Josh. xv. 42; |_Kh. el ʾAtr_ |10 |Probably the ruin | xix. 7; 1 | (?)* | | el ʾAtr, near Beit | Chr. iv. 32 | | | Jibrin, allotted to | | | | Simeon. (_Mem._ III. | | | | 261; Sh. XX.)--Conder. | | | | =ETHIOPIA= |Gen. ii. 13; | |-- |Named ‘Cush’ by | 2 Kings xix. | | | the Hebrews, and | 9; Esth. i. | | | ‘Aithiopia’ by the | 1; viii. 9; | | | Greeks. Æthiopia | Job xxviii. | | | embraced Nubia, | 19; Ps. | | | Sennaar, Kordofan, and | lxviii. 31; | | | Northern Abyssinia.