Crossword-Solution: PITHOM 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Joseph's valiant men lost their teeth, and the cities of Pithom and Raamses were destroyed, and they remained in ruins until the Israelites built them up again under taskmasters.

Now, go ye and act cunningly against the children of Israel, and proclaim in Egypt and in Goshen, saying: 'All ye men of Egypt, Goshen, and Pathros! The king has commanded us to build Pithom and Raamses and fortify them against battle.

The building of Pithom and Raamses turned out of no advantage to the Egyptians, for scarcely were the structures completed, when they collapsed, or they were swallowed by the earth, and the Hebrew workmen, besides having to suffer hardships during their erection, lost their lives by being precipitated from enormous heights, when the buildings fell in a heap.[7] But the Egyptians were little concerned whether or not they derived profit from the forced labor of the children of Israel.

The place had been called Pithom in earlier times, but later, on account of the idols set up there, it received the name Hahiroth.

The Royal Society wished some borings made in Egypt to determine the depth of the stratum of Nile mud:--] The Egyptian exploration society is wholly archaeological--at least from the cut of it I have no doubt it is so--and they want all their money to find out the pawnbrokers' shops which Israel kept in Pithom and Rameses--and then went off with the pledges.