Pithom

[ pahy-thuhm ]

noun

1. one of the two cities built by Israelite slaves in Egypt. Exodus 1:11.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pithom¹

From Hebrew Pĕthōm, from Egyptian pr-itm “house of (the god) Atum”

Example Sentences

The stelæ were erected at certain intervals along the line of the Canal, and the remains of three others of them have been found, on a mound one kilometre south of Tel el-Maskhûtah or Pithom, a little to the east of the station of the Serapeum on the Suez Canal, and on the side of a mound between the 61st kilometre of the Canal and the telegraphic station of Kabret.

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Ramses ii., the Pharaoh of the Oppression, and builder of Pithom.

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The Fund had been formed with the primary intention of finding the sites of Pithom and Naukratis, and it had been hardly two years in existence before that intention was fulfilled.

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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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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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