Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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. ” Its immense ruin-heaps show that it was built of bricks, and partly also of bricks without straw. Succoth (Ex. 12:37) is supposed by some to be the secular name of this city, Pithom being its sacred name.
This was the first halting-place of the Israelites in their exodus.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
” (Exodus 1:11) It is probably the Patumus of Herodotus (ii. 1 159), a town on the borders of Egypt, nest which Necho constructed a canal from the Nile to the Arabian Gulf.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
PI'THOM (house, or temple, of Tum, who was the Sun-god of Heliopolis), a "treasure city," or depot of provisions, built by the Israelites in Goshen. Ex 1:11. It was probably not far from the "Bitter Lakes" of Suez and near the canal. Some critics identify it with the Patoumos of Herodotus and the Thoum of the Antonine Itinerary, between Heliopolis and Pelusium, 50 Roman miles from the former and 48 miles from the latter. M. " The conclusions of M. Naville have been disputed, but Poole, Sayce, and other Egyptologists accept his '"find" as settling the question of Pithom.
According to this view, Rameses II. was its founder.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
their mouthful; a dilatation of the mouth