James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Ain

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James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Ain


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AIN.—1. A town in the neighbourhood of Riblah (Num_34:11), probably the modern el-’Ain near the source of the Orontes. 2. A town in Judah (Jos_15:32), or Simeon (Jos_19:7), where Ain arid Rimmon should be taken together. It is probably Umm er-Ramâmîn, to the N. of Beersheba.

W. Ewing.

AIN.—The sixteenth letter of the Heb. alphabet, and so used to introduce the sixteenth part of Psa_119:1-176.