How to Pronounce Pithom

What does Pithom mean?

Pithom means “their mouthful; a dilatation of the mouth”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

Where was Pithom?

Egyptian, Pa-Tum, “house of Tum,” the sun-god, one of the “treasure” cities built for Pharaoh Rameses II. by the Israelites (Ex. 1:11). It was probably the Patumos of the Greek historian Herodotus. It has now been satisfactorily identified with Tell-el-Maskhuta, about 12 miles west of Ismailia, and 20 east of Tel-el-Kebir, on the southern bank of the present Suez Canal. Here have recently (1883) been discovered the ruins of supposed grain-chambers, and other evidences to show that this was a great “store city.” Its immense ruin-heaps show that it was built of bricks, and partly also of bricks without straw. Succoth (Ex.

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

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