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Strong's #7851: Shittiym (pronounced shit-teem')

the same as the plural of 7848; acacia trees; Shittim, a place East of the Jordan:--Shittim.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shiṭṭı̂ym

Shittim = "the acacias"

1) place of Israel' s encampment between the conquest of the transjordanic region and crossing the Jordan into Canaan

2) a place west of Jerusalem

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: the same as the plural of H7848



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Numbers 25:1: "And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters"
Joshua 2:1: "of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly,"
Joshua 3:1: "rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan,"
Joel 3:18: "of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim."
Micah 6:5: "of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know"









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