Bible Names

Ataroth: meaning of the name

Ataroth means “crowns.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Ataroth in Hebrew and Greek

עֲטָרוֹת H5852

ʻĂṭârôwth (at-aw-roth') — Ataroth, the name (thus simply) of two places in Palestine

or עֲטָרֹת; plural of H5850 (עֲטָרָה);

Places named Ataroth

Ataroth in Scripture

“Ataroth” appears in 7 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 32:3

    Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

  • Numbers 32:34

    And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

  • Joshua 16:2

    And goeth out from Beth–el to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,

  • Joshua 16:5

    And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth–addar, unto Beth–horon the upper;

  • Joshua 16:7

    And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

  • Joshua 18:13

    And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth–el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth–adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth–horon.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:54

    The sons of Salma; Beth–lehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.