Places of the Bible
Anathoth
City
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Anathoth, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 7 verses
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
The name of one of the cities of refuge, in the tribe of Benjamin (Josh. 21:18). The Jews, as a rule, did not change the names of the towns they found in Palestine; hence this town may be regarded as deriving its name from the goddess Anat. It was the native place of Abiezer, one of David’s “thirty” (2 Sam. 23:27), and of Jehu, another of his mighty men (1 Chr. 12:3). It is chiefly notable, however, as the birth-place and usual residence of Jeremiah (Jer. 1:1; 11:21-23; 29:27; 32:7-9). It suffered greatly from the army of Sennacherib, and only 128 men returned to it from the Exile (Neh. 7:27; Ezra 2:23). It lay about 3 miles north of Jerusalem. It has been identified with the small and poor village of ‘Anata, containing about 100 inhabitants.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 15 verses
- Joshua
- 21:18
- 1 Kings
- 2:26
- 1 Chronicles
- 6:60, 27:12
- Ezra
- 2:23
- Nehemiah
- 7:27, 11:32
- Isaiah
- 10:30
- Jeremiah
- 1:1, 11:21, 11:23, 29:27, 32:7, 32:8, 32:9
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.