Dict: smith - ETAM

smith:

ETAM - E>@ - (lair of wild beasts). A village of the tribe of Simeon, specified only in the list in ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:32) comp. kjv@Joshua:19:7 A place in Judah, fortified and garrisoned by Rehoboam. ( kjv@2Chronicles:11:6) Here, according to the statements of Josephus and the Talmudists, were the sources of the water from which Solomon’s gardens and the pleasure-grounds were fed, and Bethlehem and the temple supplied.

ETAM, THE ROCK - E>@ - a cliff or lofty rock, into a cleft or chasm of which Samson retired after his slaughter of the Philistines. kjv@Judges:15:8 kjv@Judges:15:11) This natural stronghold was in the tribe of Judah; and near it, probably at its foot, were Lehi and Ramath-lehi and Enhakkore. kjv@Judges:15:9 kjv@Judges:15:14,17-19) The name Etam was held by a city in the neighborhood of Bethlehem, ( kjv@2Chronicles:11:6) which is known to have been situated in the extremely uneven and broken country round the modern Urtas.