Bible Names

Pirathon: meaning of the name

Pirathon means “his dissipation or deprivation; his rupture.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Pirathon in Hebrew and Greek

פִּרְעָתוֹן H6552

Pirʻâthôwn (pir-aw-thone') — Pirathon, a place in Palestine

from H6546 (פַּרְעָה); chieftaincy;

Places named Pirathon

Pirathon in Scripture

“Pirathon” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Judges 12:15

    And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.