Ain
("eye".)
- Fountain, spring, which flashes in the landscape like a gleaming eye. Distinguished from beer, a dug well (Exo 15:27), "wells," rather springs. Generally in compositions En-gedi, "fountain of kids," En-dor, "fountain of the house," etc. Plural in Joh 3:23, AEnon; like the Yorkshire Fountains Abbey. Riblah, E. of Ain (Hebrew the spring), marks the eastern boundary of Palestine (Num 34:11). Riblah is identified as on the N. E. side of the Hermon mountains; and Ain answers to Ain el 'Azy (nine miles from Riblah, on the N.E. side), the source of the Orerites.
- A southern city of Judah, afterward of Simeon, then assigned to the priests (Jos 15:32; Jos 19:7; Jos 21:16).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Ain
!. On the northern boundary of Israel, as given Nu 34". It lay west (S W. ?) of Riblah. It is almost impossible now to describe the boundary there given. Riblah has been identified with the village stUl bearing that name, 20 miles south-west of Hums (Emesa) and Zedad, viith Sadad some 30 miles east of Riblah : other points are unknowTi. Kobin- son following Thomson, places Ain at Am el-Asy, the main fountain of the Orontes, about 15 miles soutli-west of Riblah (Researches (1852), p. 538). Conder identifies this ^vith Hazor-Enan (Heth and Muab p. 7 ff.). A description of this fountain of the Orontes -n-ill be found in the passaws referred to. On the whole question, see under Palestine, and other places named with Am in Nu 34'-"; also A. B. Davidson's Eze/ael, pp. 351 352 2. Jos 15*' 19' and 1 Ch 4». Here Ain and Rimmon should apparently be read as one name, Ain-Rimmon = En-^inimon, which see. A. Henderson. AIR (c-nt, i-^P, oipav6,) is the first of the three divisions— 'the heaven above,' 'the earth bene.atli, and 'the water under the earth.' Its usual sense is the atmosphere resting u…
Smith's Bible Dictionary on Ain
(spring, well). One of the landmarks on the eastern boundary of Palestine. (Numbers 34:11) It is probably ’Ain el-’Azy, the main source of the Orontes. One of the southernmost cities of Judah, (Joshua 15:32) afterwards allotted to Simeon, (Joshua 19:7; 1 Chronicles 4:32) and given to the priests. (Joshua 21:16)
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