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jat´ẽr (יתּיר, yattı̄r, and יתּר, yattir): A town in the hill country of Judah, mentioned in conjunction with Shamir and Socoh (); one of the cities given to the “children of Aaron the priest†(; ). David after his victory over the Amalekites sent a present of the spoil from Ziklag “to them that were in Jattir†().
It is now Khirbet ‛Attı̂r, an important ruin, in the extreme South of the hill country, 5 miles Southeast of edh Dharı̂yeh and 20 miles Southeast of Beit Jibrı̂n. This must correspond to the “very large village Jethira†which is mentioned in Eusebius, Onomasticon (119 27; 133 3; 134 24, etc.) as 20 miles Southeast of Eleutheropolis (i.e. Beit Jibrı̂n). The site is full of caves. See PEF, III, 408, Sh XXV.