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H5871G

עַ֫יִן

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Ain

Ain = "spring" one of the landmarks on the eastern boundary of Palestine Also named: rim.mon (רִמּוֹן, רִמּוֹנוֹ "Rimmon" H7417)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

II. עַ֫יִן noun feminine spring (of water) (connection with I. ׳ע dubious; Late Hebrew id., Phoenician ען; Assyrian ênu, înu; Arabic ; Ethiopic ; Palmyrene עינא, ᵑ7 עֵינָא, עַיְינָא; Syriac ); — absolute ׳ע 1Sam 29:1 +, עָ֑יִן Gen 49:22 +, הָעַ֫יְנָה Gen 24:16; Gen 24:45 construct עֵין vGen 24:13 +; plural עֲיָנֹת Deut 8:7, וֺת- 2Chr 32:3 construct עֵינוֺת Exod 15:27 = Num 33:9, עִינוֺת Prov 8:28 (Ges«GKC:93v»§ 93v); — spring Gen 16:7; Gen 24:16; Gen 24:29; Gen 24:30; Gen 24:42; Gen 24:45 (all J) Gen 49:22 (poem in J), 1Sam 29:1 עֵין חַמַּיִם Gen 16:7; Gen 24:13; Gen 24:43 (J), compare Exod 15:27 (J) Num 33:9 (P); ׳נַחֲלֵי מַיִם ע וּתְחֹמֹת Deut 8:7 מֵימֵי הָעֲיָנוֺת 2Chr 32:3 תְּהוֺם ׳ְ Prov 8:28 (i.e. of the sea); figurative עֵין יַעֲקֹב Deut 33:28 (poem), i.e. Jacob's descendants. Particular springs are:
  a. חֲרֹד ׳ע Judg 7:1 (on location compare GFM).
  b. הַקּוֺרֵא ׳ע (partridge-spring) Judg 15:19 (compare id.).
  c. רֹגֵּל ׳ע near Jerusalem (early sanctuary RSSem i. 157, 2nd ed. 172) 2Sam 17:17 compare 1Kgs 1:2, on border of Judah Josh 15:7, and Benjamin Josh 18:16.
  d. הַתַּנִּין ׳ע (dragon-spring) Neh 2:13 (= c ? so RSl.c.). — On שַׁעַר הָעַיִן Neh 2:14; Neh 3:15; Neh 12:37 see שַׁעַר

III. עַ֫יִן

proper name, of a location 1. לָעָ֑יִן, on northeast border of Canaan Num 34:11, ᵐ5 ἐπὶ πηγάς
2. a. in Negeb of Judah Josh 15:32 (+ וְרִמּוֺן), Levitical city Josh 21:16 (but ᵐ5B Ασα read עָשָׁן, as 1Chr 6:44), apparently =
  b. 1Chr 19:7 (+ ׳ר; assigned to Simeon), ׳ר ׳וָע 1Chr 4:32 (read probably ׳וְעֵין ר); probably modern Umm er-Ram¹-m£n, approximately 18 miles southwest from Hebrom, BuhlGeogr.183. — see עֵין רִמּוֺן below

עֵין רִמּוֺן proper name, of a location in post-exile Judah Neh 11:29 (A (εν)Πεμμιον), probably= III. עַיִן 2 q. v. and רִמּוֺן Zech 14:10.

IV. רִמּוֺן

proper name, of a location 1. in סֶלַע הָרִמּוֺן cliff of R. Judg 20:45; Judg 20:47, רִמּוֺן ׳ס vJudg 20:47; Judg 21:13 Ρεμμων; = modern cliff Rammôn, east from Bethel, BuhlG 100, compare GFMJudg 2 0, 45.
2. in southern Judah, ׳עַיִן וְר Josh 15:32 ׳עַיִן ר Josh 19:7 (both P), 1Chr 4:32 = ׳ר Zech 14:10 Ρεμμων[θ], etc.; see עַיִן 2, p. 745, and עֵין רִמּוֺן.
3. in Zebulun Josh 19:13 (Ρεμμωνα(μ)), = רִמּוֺנוֺ 1Chr 6:62 (Ρεμμων); + Josh 21:35 (read רִמֹּנָה for דִּמְנָה Di Benn Steuern); modern Rummâne, approximately 6 miles east of north from Nazareth (BuhlG 221).

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