Difference between revisions of "Jeshimon"

<p> [[Pisgah]] and [[Peor]] faced the Jeshimon, i.e. the waste; not merely '''''Midbar''''' , "a common" rather than a desert (&nbsp;Numbers 21:20; &nbsp;Numbers 23:28). The desolate tract skirting the N. and N.W. coasts of the [[Dead]] Sea, between the [[Jordan]] mouth (near which was Beth-jeshimoth) and Engedi: consisting of chalky crumbling limestone rocks and a fiat covered with nitrous crust, into which the feet sink as in ashes; without vegetation except the hubeibeh, or alkali plant. The hill of [[Hachilah]] was "S. of" or "before" [[Jeshimon]] (&nbsp;1 Samuel 23:19; &nbsp;1 Samuel 26:1; &nbsp;1 Samuel 26:3.) [[Eusebius]] says Jeshimon was ten miles S.of Jericho, near the Dead Sea. "The '''''Mid Bar''''' ("pastoral common") of Judah" stretched S. of Jeshimon from [[Engedi]] southward (&nbsp;Joshua 15:61-62). </p>

<p> ''''' jḗ ''''' - ''''' shē ''''' ´- ''''' mon ''''' , ''''' jesh´i ''''' - ''''' mon ''''' ( הישׁימן , <i> ''''' ha ''''' </i> - <i> ''''' yeshı̄mōn ''''' </i> , "the desert," and in the Revised Version (British and American) so translated but in the King James Version, &nbsp; Numbers 21:20; &nbsp;Numbers 23:28; &nbsp;1 Samuel 23:19 , &nbsp;1 Samuel 23:24; &nbsp;1 Samuel 26:1 , &nbsp;1 Samuel 26:3 , "Jeshimon" as a place-name. In Numbers, the [[Septuagint]] reads ἡ ἔρημος , <i> ''''' hē ''''' </i> <i> ''''' érēmos ''''' </i> , "the desert"; in 1 Samuel, the Septuagint reads Ἰεσσαιμόν , <i> ''''' Iessaimón ''''' </i> ): In these passages probably two districts are referred to: (1) The "desert" North of the Dead Sea, which was overlooked from Pisgah (&nbsp;Numbers 21:20; &nbsp;Numbers 23:28 ). This is the bare and sterile land, saturated with salt, lying on each side of the Jordan North of the Dead Sea, where for miles practically no vegetable life can exist. (2) The sterile plateau West of the steep cliffs bordering the western shores of the Dead Sea. Here between the lower slopes of the [[Judean]] hills, where thousands of Bedouin live and herd their flocks, and the more fertile borders of the sea with their oases ( <i> ''''' ‛Ain ''''' </i> <i> ''''' Feshkhah ''''' </i> , <i> ''''' ‛Ain ''''' </i> <i> ''''' Jidy ''''' </i> , etc.), is a broad strip of utterly waterless land, the soft chalky hills of which are, for all but a few short weeks, destitute of practically any vegetation. The Hill of Hachilah was on the edge of this desert (&nbsp;1 Samuel 23:19; &nbsp;1 Samuel 26:1 , &nbsp;1 Samuel 26:3 ), and the [[Arabah]] was to its south (&nbsp;1 Samuel 23:24 ). It is possible that the references in Numbers may also apply to this region. </p> <p> #The word "Jeshimon" ( <i> ''''' yeshı̄mōn ''''' </i> ) is often used as a common noun in referring to the desert of [[Sinai]] (&nbsp; Deuteronomy 32:10; &nbsp;Psalm 78:40; &nbsp;Psalm 106:14; &nbsp;Isaiah 43:19 , etc.), and except in the first two of these references, when we have "wilderness," it is always translated "desert." Although used in 7 passages in poetical parallelism to <i> ''''' midhbār ''''' </i> , translated "wilderness," it really means a much more hopeless place; in a <i> ''''' midhbār ''''' </i> animals can be pastured, but a <i> ''''' yeshı̄mōn ''''' </i> is a desolate waste. </p>

<p> is the rendering in the Auth. Version (&nbsp;Numbers 21:20; &nbsp;Numbers 23:28; &nbsp;1 Samuel 23:1; &nbsp;1 Samuel 23:9; &nbsp;1 Samuel 23:24; &nbsp;1 Samuel 26:1; &nbsp;1 Samuel 26:3) of '''''יְשַׁימוֹן''''' ( ''Yeshinon'' ') '','' which simply denotes a ''Wilderness,'' as in the margin (so the Sept.), and elsewhere in the text (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 22:10; &nbsp;Psalms 68:7; "desert;" &nbsp;Psalms 78:40; &nbsp;Psalms 107:14; &nbsp;Isaiah 43:16; &nbsp;Isaiah 43:20, "solitary" way, &nbsp;Psalms 107:4). (See [[Desert]]). </p>