rithmah Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
rithmah in Easton's Bible Dictionary
wild broom, a station in the wilderness (Num. 33:18, 19), the "broom valley," or "valley of broombushes," the place apparently of the original encampment of Israel, near Kadesh.
rithmah in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(heath), a march-station in the wilderness, #Nu 33:18,19| Probably northeast of Hazeroth.
rithmah in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
RITH'MAH (broom), a station of Israel, Num 33:18-19, named from retem or rethem, "the broom," a species of low bush growing in the wilderness. Some regard it as being the same as "Kadesh" of Num 13:26; Rowlands suggests that it is at Sahel er-Retmah, west of 'Ain Kadesh, which he makes Kadesh.
rithmah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
A station in Israel's march (Numbers 33:18-19): from rethem or retem, the "broom"; KJV "juniper." The same encampment as that at Kadesh (Numbers 13:26). Rithmah is a descriptive epithet, from the broom abounding there; probably applied to the encampment in this neighborhood in the first march toward Canaan, to distinguish it from the second encampment in the same district, but not the same spot, in the 40th year (Numbers 33:36-38; Numbers 13:21-26).