Bible Names

Etham: meaning of the name

Etham means “their strength; their sign.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Etham in Hebrew and Greek

אֵתָם H864

ʼÊthâm (ay-thawm') — Etham, a place in the Desert

of Egyptian derivation;

Places named Etham

Etham in Scripture

“Etham” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Exodus 13:20

    And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

  • Numbers 33:6

    And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.

  • Numbers 33:7

    And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi–hahiroth, which is before Baal–zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.

  • Numbers 33:8

    And they departed from before Pi–hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.