Endirons (Hastings' Dictionary)

Ezk 40«°' (text 'hooks' [which see] m. ' or endirons, or the two hearth-stones '). The spelling of 1611 is 'andirons.' The change into 'end- irons' was first made in 183S. under the impression, nodoubt, as Wright says, that being the iron standards, one at each end of the fireplace, to support the log of wood that was burning, this was the derivation, and should be the spelling. But this is not the derivation. It cannot be traced farther back than old Fr. andier and late Lat.

anderia ; and the form -iron is an Eng. corruption as much as end-. Another false spelling is 'hand- iron,' as Florio (1691), .Seo. Fnttet, 169, 'Set that firebrand upon the handiron." J_ HASTINGS. EN-DOR (■i'nj*y Jos 17", -in 'p 1 S 28', iiJi 'p Ps 83'°.

— A town in Issachar belonging to Manasseh, mentioned with Dor as one of ' three countries ' (AV; the text nj: is undoubtedly corrupt) which appear to have been in the Jordan Valley (Beth- shean and Ibleam), in the Esdraelon plateau (Dor and En-dor), and in the low hills to the W. (Taan- ach) ; but for ' countries ' we may read 'heights' ( RV), as referring only to Dor, En-dor, and Taanach.

It was not far from Shunem and Gilboa, and near the Kishon and Tabor, where Sisera is said in the last passage (Ps 83'") to have perished. In the fourth cent. A.D. it was kno^\'n as a large village 4 Roman miles south of Tabor — now the hamlet Endiir in this position, on the N. slope of the conical hill of Nebi Dhahy. Possibly the site of Dor should be placed near En-dor, which means the ' spring of Dor ' j but it may be objected that both are noticed in a single passage (cf.

, however, Sheba and Beersheba in Jos 19). En-dor was one of the places conquered by Tahutmes in. about 1600 B.C. See SWP vol. ii. sheet viii. See Dor. LrrERATuKii.— Lagarde, Onom. 96, 121,228; Robinson, BRP lii. 460, 468 f. ; BaedekerSocin, Pal.* 460 1. ; Van do Velde, iL 383 ; • W. H. Bennett In Haupt's OT remarks on Jos 17" ■ As the Endor clause does not occur in Jg 127, and Endor is about 26 miles E. of Dor, the clause is probablv due to accidental rei>etition of the Dor clause.'

In Jos 102 in like manner Sheba, which is wanting in 1 Ch 42s and in some Heb. MSS, may be an accidental repetition of the V^v in V3r nM3' Tristram, Land of Itrael, p. 127 ; Conder, Tent-Wovle in Pal 63 ; Porter, Giant Cities 0} Bashan, 247, 250. C. R. Conder.