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(Heb. Pinon', ôַּéðֹå . prob. i. q. Punon; Sept. Öåéíώí ; Vulg. Phinon), one of the “dukes” of Edom; that is, head or founder of a tribe of that nation (Gen_36:41; 1Ch_1:52). By Eusebius and Jerome (Ononzasticon, Öéíῶí , and Fenon) the seat of the tribe is said to have been at Punon, one of the stations of the Israelites in the Wilderness; which again they identify with Phaeno, “between Petra and Zoar,” the site of the famous Roman copper-mines. No name answering to Pinon appears to have been yet discovered in Arabic literature or among the existing tribes. SEE PUNON.