left hand; shut
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ATER.1. The ancestor of certain Temple porters who returned with Zerubbabel, Ezr_2:15; Ezr_2:42, Neh_7:21; Neh_7:45; cf. Atar. 2. (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] Aterezias), 1Es_5:15; cf. Ezr_2:16. His sons returned with Zerubbabel.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Neh_10:17.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
A'ter. (shut up).
1. The children of Ater were among the porters or gate-keepers of the Temple who returned with Zerubbabel. Ezr_2:42; Neh_7:45.
2. The children of "Ater of Hezekiah" to the number of 98 returned with Zerubbabel, Ezr_2:16; Neh_7:21, and were among the heads of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. Neh_10:17.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
a?tẽr (אטר, 'āṭēr, ?bound? [?): (1) The ancestor of a family of 98 persons who returned from Babylonian captivity with Zerubbabel (Ezr_2:16; Neh_7:21). the King James Version has ?Ater of Hezekiah?; the Revised Version (British and American) of 1 Esdras 5:15 has ?Ater of Ezekias,? margin, ?Ater of Hezekiah.? the King James Version has ?Aterezias.?
(2) The head of a family of porters who returned from Babylon to Jerusalem (Ezr_2:42; Neh_7:45).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ater
(Hebrews Ater', אָטִר, shut up; Sept. Α᾿τήρ v. r. in Ezr_2:42, Αττήρ), the name of three men.
1. A descendant(?) of one Hezekiah (q.v.), whose family, to the number of 98, returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezr_2:16; Neh_7:21). B.C. ante 536.
2. The head of a family of Levitical porters to the Temple, that returned at the same time with the above (Ezr_2:42; Neh_7:45). B.C. 536.
3. One of the chief Israelites that subscribed the aacred covenant with Nehemiah (Neh_10:17). B.C. cir. 410.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.