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("crowns".)
1. A town in the land of Jazer and Gilead, taken and "built" by Gad (; ).
2. A place on the boundary of Ephraim and Manasseh (; ; ); possibly the same as ATAROTH ADDAR, on the W. border of Benjamin, "near the hill that lieth on the S. side of the nether Bethheron" ().
3. ATAROTH THE HOUSE OF JOAB (), or "Crowns the house of Joab," a town in Judah.