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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

a'-thak (`athakh, "lodging-place"): One of the cities of Judah to which David sent from Ziklag the spoil of the Amalekites (1Sa 30:30). Its site is unknown. Driver, Budde, and Wellhausen identify it with Ether (Jos 15:42).