juniper; noise
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
RITHMAH.A station of the Israelites (Num_33:18 f.).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A station in Israel's march (Num_33:18-19): from rethem or retem, the "broom"; KJV "juniper." The same encampment as that at Kadesh (Num_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 (Num_33:36-38; Num_13:21-26).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Rith'mah. (heath). A march-station, in the wilderness, Num_33:18-19, probably, northeast of Hazeroth.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
rith?ma (רתמה, rithmāh, ?broom?): A desert camp of the Israelites (Num_33:18, Num_33:19). The name refers to the white desert broom. See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Rithmah
(Heb. Rithmah', רַתְמָה, heath; Sept. ῾Ραθαμᾶ), the seventeenth station of the Hebrews in the wilderness (Num_33:18-19). About half a day's journey south from Wady Kiseima, SEE AZMON is found a valley called Wady Rithimath, or Wady Abu-Retemat. Rothem literally is a broom bush; hence Rithmah, the region of the brush or heath, and near this wady the broom bushes are abundant. So Schwarz (Palest. p. 212), who identifies Rithmah with Kerdesh-Barnea. It probably lay immediately west of that place. SEE EXODE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.