Pithom
pi'-thom (pithom; Peitho (Ex 1:11)):
1. Meaning of Name:
Champollion (Gesenius, Lexicon, under the word) considered
this name to mean "a narrow place" in Coptic, but it is
generally explained to be the Egyptian Pa-tum, or "city of
the setting sun." It was one of the cities built by the
Hebrews (see RAAMSES), and according to Wessel was the Thou...
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A treasure city in lower Egypt Ex 1:11...
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(the city of justice), one of the store-cites Israelites for
the first oppressor, the Pharaoh "which knew not Joseph." Ex
1:11 It is probably the Patumus of Herodotus (ii. 1 159), a
town on the borders of Egypt, nest which Necho constructed a
canal from the Nile to the Arabian Gulf....
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Egyptian, Pa-Tum, "house of Tum," the sun-god, one of the
"treasure" cities built for Pharaoh Rameses II. by
the
Israelites (Ex. 1:11). It was probably the Patumos
of the Greek
historian Herodotus. It has now been satisfactorily
identified
with Tell-el-Maskhuta, about 12 miles west of
Ismailia, and 20
east of Tel-el-Kebir, on the southern ...
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An Egyptian store city built by Israelites for their
oppressor (Exodus 1:11). Identified by Brugsch with the fort
of Djar, Pachtum. It existed early in the 18th dynasty,
before Thothmes III (the Pharaoh who perished in the Red
Sea), and was probably erected by his grandfather Aahmes I.
The fort subsequently was called Heroopolis. The Egyptian ...
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their mouthful; a dilatation of the mouth...
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Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them
with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure
cities, Pithom and Raamses....
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