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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
Name changed to
Abel
-
mizraim
, which see (
Gen. 50:10-11
10
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
11
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. (Genesis 50:10‑11)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
Place
near
the
Jordan
, where
Joseph
, his
brethren
, and the
Egyptians
made
great
lamentation at the
burial
of
Jacob
. The inhabitants of the land called it
ABEL
-
MIZRAIM
(
Gen. 50:10-11
10
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
11
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. (Genesis 50:10‑11)
).
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
a bramble