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(Heb. Yithnan', éַúְðָï , bestowed, otherwise distance; Sept. É᾿èíÜí [but the Vat. MS. joins it to the preceding word, Á᾿óïñéùíÜí , and the Alex. to the following, É᾿èíáæßö ],Vulg. Jethram), one of the cities in the south of Judah, mentioned between Hazor and Ziph (Jos_15:23); perhaps lying along the southern edge of the highland district. It cannot well have been the Jedna of the Onomasticon ( É᾿åäíÜ , the modern Idhna), for this is in the mountains west of Hebron (see Keil Comment. ad loc.). The enumeration in Jos_15:32 requires us to join this with the following (there being no copula between), Ithnan-Ziph, i.e. Zephath (q.v.). SEE JUDAH.