Punon (Hastings' Dictionary)

A station in the journeyings of the children of Israel, men- tioned only in Nu 33"- ^. The LXX renders it in the same way as PiNON, the name of one of the 'dukes' of Edora (Gn 30'). Eusebius (,9.v. 'Wi-wi-) and .Jerome (s.v. ' Faenon ') speak of it as formerly a city of the dukes of Edom, and identify it with a place between Petra and Zoar, called 'I'oii'iii', where mines were worked (Onomast. ed. Lag. pp. 155 and 288). A. T. CiIAPMAN. PURAH (X1J ?* branch • = .-nN3 la 10"; T'wine- press' = .Ti-D Is 63'; LXX "fapo). — Gideon's 'ser- vant,' lit. ' young m.an ' (^l•J, L.XX iraioipiov, 'Vulg. pucr), i.e. armour-bearer, Jg 7""-; cf. 9", 1 S 14'- «, 2 S 20". G. A. Cooke.