Atroth-beth-joab (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Ataroth. ATROTH-SHOPHAN (Is^rf nnpv. LXX has 2a.0«l,) and yr]v ^oi<pdp, as well as ^tinpdv [Swete's notes]). — A town of Gad (Nu 32*°). The identification is doubtful, as the tribes of Gad and Reuben seem confused, Dibon, Ataroth, and Aroer being given • airocl ToZ ititttjxoZ (97). Exactly the same expression is used by Philo (Leg. Oai. t.c.;ct. De Man. ii. 2, ll. 223 ; and ifr«t{ xccr' ittctvTcf, Jos. BJ V. V. 7 end, 3 Mac 1^1).

The nieanin(f is, of course, on one day in the year, not on one occasion : Lv 161"* implies more than one entrance on the day ; act-ording to the Mishna, the high priest entered four times, viz. with the incense (I'limd, V. 1), with the blood of the buUnck (v. 3), with the blood of the goat (v. 4), and at the close of the day, after the ordinary everiinij Diirnt-offering, to fetch out the censer and incense-dish, which he had left there (vii. 4X ATTAI AUGUSTUS 203 (v.

**) as cities of Gad, while they certainly were in Reuben's territory. If Atroth-sho])lian lay near Ataroth, it maj' be, as Tristram suggests [Land of MuiiO, p. 276), that the coue-shapud Jebel 'Attariis rejiresents tlie former and Khurbct 'Altarua the latter. If it lay near Jazer and Jogbeliah (which see), named immed. after it, it must be sought farther N. — possibly at Safdt beside the latter. A. Henderson. ATTAI Cey).— 1. A Jerahmeelite (1 Ch ^»»'). 2.

A Gadite warrior who joined David at Ziklag (1 Ch 12"). 3. One of Kehoboam's sons (2 Ch 1 1-»). ATTAIN has now lost its literal meaning 'to reach a place,' which occurs in Ac 27''^ ' if by any means they might attain to Phenice' (RV 'reach Plia:nix'). Elsewhere in AV the meaning is tig., as now. In Ph 3" the same Gr. verb (xoTai'Tdu) is used as in Ac 27" just quoted, ' if by any means I might a. unto the resurrection from the dead.'

But in the next verse ('not as though I had already a" ') tlie verb is ditt'erent (Aa/t^dvu, RV ' obtained '), being connected rather with the verb (KUToKaix^ivu) tr'' ' apprehend ' in the same verse. See APPRE- HEND. In Ph 3" 'whereto we have already a",' there is no word corresp. to 'already' in Gr., 'already a""' is an attempt to tr. (pBivu, which, in Ro 9" is tr'' ' attain ' simply. But in Ph 3" an adv. (^S-q) is used.

In 1 Ti 4' AV gives a WTong direction to the thought : ' good doctrine, where- unto thou hast attained ' (Gr. TrapaKo\ov6tu, RV cor- rectly, ' wliich thou hast followed,' adding until now to complete the sense). J. Hastings. ATTALIA ('ATToXfa) was a city on the coast of Pimiphvlia. founded by Attains II. Philadelphus (B.C. l5'J-138), as the harbour (Ac 14^) through whicli the S. parts of the great Pergamenian kingdom might communicate with the S.

sea, with Syria, and with Egypt ; and throughout subsequent history it has retained its name and its importance as a seaport. It is now (or at least was until steamships revived some other harbours like Mersina) the chief harbour of the S. coast of Asia Minor, bearing the name Adalia. In the Byzantine ecclesiastical system A.

was originally subject to Perga, the metropolis of Pamphylia Secunda, but in 1084 it was made a metropolis ; there can be no doubt that this elevation in rank was due to the fact that Perga had completely decayed, and was a mere name, giving a title to the metropolitan bishop. The small harbour of A. is still used by boats, though steamships anchor out- side, and It was in use in the end of the r2th cent. {Anna Commena, ii. p. 113). The river Catarrhactes (lowed into the sea near A.

, though it has now been diverted into so many channels for irrigation and other purposes that it hardly de- serves to be called a river. The cults mentioned at A. seem all to spring from its Pergamenian origin, as Zeus Soter, Athena, Apollo Archegetes. LnHRATURB. — The t)e3l account of A. Lb in lAnckoronski, Stddte Famphjjlienit uiul PUidwiui, i. pp. (^-3*2 and 1.0:^1U3 : see ftUo Beaufort, Karajnariia ; Spratt and Fortjea, Li/cia. \V. M. Ramsay.