Strong's #5862: `Eytam (pronounced ay-tawm')

from 5861; hawk-ground; Etam, a place in Palestine:--Etam.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛êyṭâm

Etam = "lair of wild beasts"

1) a village of the tribe of Simeon

2) a town in Judah fortified and garrisoned by king Rehoboam of Judah and located between Bethlehem and Tekoa

3) a cliff; site uncertain

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H5861

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Judges 15:8: "and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam."
Judges 15:11: "went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest"
1 Chronicles 4:3: "And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister"
1 Chronicles 4:32: "And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:"
2 Chronicles 11:6: "He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,"