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JESHIMON.—This word, derived from a Heb. root meaning ‘to be waste or desolate,’ is used either as a common noun (= ‘desert,’ ‘wilderness’) or (with the art., ‘the Jeshimon’) as a proper name (Num_21:20; Num_23:28, 1Sa_23:19; 1Sa_23:24; 1Sa_26:1; 1Sa_26:3). In the latter usage the reference is either to the waste country in the Jordan valley N. of the Dead Sea and east of the river (so apparently in Numbers), or to the eastern part of the hill-country of Judah on the western shore of the Dead Sea (Son_1:1-17 Samam.).