Dict: smith - PITHOM

smith:

PITHOM - P>@ - (the city of justice), one of the store-cites Israelites for the first oppressor, the Pharaoh "which knew not Joseph." kjv@Exodus:1:11) It is probably the Patumus of Herodotus (ii. 1 159), a town on the borders of Egypt, nest which Necho constructed a canal from the Nile to the Arabian Gulf.