Bible Names

Atad: meaning of the name

Atad means “a thorn.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Atad in Hebrew and Greek

אָטָד H329

ʼâṭâd (aw-tawd') — a thorn-tree (especially the buckthorn)

from an unused root probably meaning to pierce or make fast;

Places named Atad

Atad in Scripture

“Atad” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 50:10

    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.

  • Genesis 50:11

    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.