assemblies; testimonies
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ADITHAIM (Jos_15:36).A town of Judah in the Shephelah. The site is unknown.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A town in Judah, on a height overlooking the shephelah or low hill country (Jos_15:36). Probably the same as that called later Hadid and Adida. Vespasian used the latter as one of his outposts in besieging Jerusalem.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Aditha'im. (double ornament). A town belonging to Judah, lying in the low country, and named, between Sharaim and hag-Gederah, in Jos_15:36 only.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ad-i-thā?im (עדיתים, ‛ădhı̄thayim ?double ornament, passage, or prey?): A city in ?the lowland? (Shephelah, not as the King James Version ?valley?) of Judah (Jos_15:36). Site unknown, but possibly same as ADIDA (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Adithaim
(Heb. Adithayim, עֲדַיתִיַם, double prey or double ornament; Sept. Α᾿διαθάϊμ, but some copies omit; Vulg. Adithaim), a town in the plain of Judah, mentioned between Sharaim and Gederah (Jos_15:36). Eusebius (Onomast. s.v.) mentions two places of the name of Adatha (Α᾿δαθά, Jerome, Aditha and Adia), one near Gaza, and the other near Diospolis (Lydda); the former being commonly supposed to be the same with Adithaim, and the latter with Hadid; and probably corresponding respectively to the two places called Adida (q.v.) by Josephus. Schwarz (Palest. p. 102) accordingly thinks that Adithaim is represented by the modern village Eddis, 5 Eng. miles east of Gaza (comp. Robinsons Researches, 2, 370 sq.); but this is too far from the associated localities of the same group, SEE TRIBE,which require a position not far from Moneisin, a village with traces of antiquity, about 5 miles south of Ekron (Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 114).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.