Pithom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Pithom
From Hebrew Pĕthōm, from Egyptian pr-itm “house of (the god) Atum”
Example Sentences
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In 1883 he disinterred the remains of Pa-Tum, or Pithom, one of the two “store-cities” which the children of Israel were forced to build.
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We are told in the Book of Exodus that two of the “treasure cities” which the Israelites built for the Pharaoh of the Oppression were “Pithom and Raamses.”
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The discovery of Pithom was, as we have already seen, the inaugural work of the Egypt Exploration Fund.
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Dr. Naville's excavations proved him to have been right in identifying Tel el-Maskhuteh with Pithom.
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The site of Raamses or Ramses, the companion city of Pithom, has still to be discovered.
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