Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Prince, or summit, a place “in the land of Ephraim” (Judg. 12:15), now Fer’on, some 10 miles south-west of Shechem. This was the home of Abdon the judge.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(princely), “in the land of Ephraim in the mount of the Amalekite,” a place in (Judges 12:15) Its site, now called Fer’ata, is about one mile and a half south of the road from Jaffa, by Hableh, to Nablus .
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
PIR'ATHON (princely), a place in Ephraim, the home and burial-place of Abdon, one of the judges of Israel. Jud 12:15. One of David's mighty men was a Pirathonite. 1 Chr 27:14; 1 Chr 11:31; 2 Sam 23:30. Robinson proposed Ferata, 6 miles from Shechem; the Pal. Memoirs suggest Feron, a hamlet on the edge of a plain, 10 miles west of Samaria, as its site.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
his dissipation or deprivation; his rupture