Hebrew word · H6553

פִּרְעָתוֹנִי

hapir'atoni

Pirathon

'Of Pirathon', the name of someone from Pirathon (פִּרְעָתוֹן), a town in Ephraim's hill country.

Appears 5 times in 5 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

Pirathonite, of Pirathon "princely"

an inhabitant of Pirathon

Another spelling of pir.a.ton (פִּרְעָתוֹן "Pirathon" H6552)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of 1 Chronicles 27:14

Range of meaning

'Of Pirathon', the name of someone from Pirathon (פִּרְעָתוֹן), a town in Ephraim's hill country.

Against the English

'Pirathonite' is accurate. Its value lies in what it identifies.

Used elsewhere in the period

The judge Abdon son of Hillel was 'the Pirathonite' and was buried at Pirathon 'in the land of Ephraim' (Judg 12:13–15). Benaiah the Pirathonite appears among David's elite warriors, 'the Thirty' (2 Sam 23:30; 1 Chr 11:31). 1 Maccabees 9:50 names a 'Pharathon' that Bacchides fortified, probably the same place. It is usually identified with Farʿata, west/southwest of Shechem (Nablus).

Where it appears

Judges · 2

  1. Judges 12:13 הַפִּרְעָתוֹנִֽי׃ the Pirathonite

    After Elon, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, judged Israel.

  2. Judges 12:15 הַפִּרְעָתוֹנִ֑י the Pirathonite

    Then Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

2 Samuel · 1

  1. 2 Samuel 23:30 פִּרְעָ֣תֹנִ֔י [the] Pirathonite

    Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai from the brooks of Gaash,

1 Chronicles · 2

  1. 1 Chronicles 11:31 הַפִּרְעָתֹנִֽי׃ the Pirathonite

    Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

  2. 1 Chronicles 27:14 הַפִּרְעָתוֹנִ֖י the Pirathonite

    The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

    Here: 'The man from Pirathon', a town in the hill country of Ephraim. Giving a man's hometown was the usual way to tell apart people with the same name.

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