Enam
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
A city of the Shephelah or lowland of Judah ( Joshua 15:34). In Genesis 38:14; Genesis 38:21, read as margin "in the gate ( Phathach ) of Enaim," instead of "in an open place." It lay on the road from Judah's dwelling place to Timnath. Aben Ezra less probably translates "at the breaking forth of two fountains." Conder identifies it with Allin, a ruin close to Thamna, now Tibneh, three miles to the E. on an ancient road from Adullam, the very road by which Judah would have come from Adullain to Timnah. The Fellahin dialect changes "n" into "l".
Smith's Bible Dictionary [2]
E'nam. (Double Spring). One of the cities of Judah, in the Shefelah , or lowland. Joshua 15:34.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [3]
City in the lowlands of Judah. Joshua 15:34 . Identified with the ruins at Wady Alin, 31 45' N, 34 59' E .
Holman Bible Dictionary [4]
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
(Hebrews with the art. ha-Eynam', הָעֵינָם , doubtless a contraction for
הָעֵינִיַם , The Two Springs; Sept. ᾿Ηνάϊμ v.r. ᾿Ηναείμ and Μαιανί , Vulg. Enaim), a city in the lowlands of Judah, mentioned between Tappuah and Jarmuth ( Joshua 15:34). From its mention with towns (Jarmuth and Eshtaol for instance) which are known to have been near Timnath, this is very probably the place in the "entrance" of which (perhaps at a fork of the road) Tamar sat to intercept her father-in-law on his way to Timnath ( Genesis 38:14), ( פֶּתִח עֵינִיַם , pe'thach Eyna'yim, i.e., Doorway Of Enaim, or the Double Spring; Sept. Αἱ Πύλαι Αἰνάν , Vulg. Bivium Itineris, A.V. "an open place;" comp. Reland, Palest, page 761). Eusebius and Jerome ( Onomast. s.v. ᾿Ηναίμ , Enaim) state that it was "still a village Betheninm ( Βεθενίμ ) near the terebinth;" meaning probably "Abraham's oak," 22 miles S. of Jerusalem (Ib. s.v. Ἀρκώ , Arboch), near Hebron (Robinson, Res. 2:443). Schwarz in like manner identifies Enam with "the village Beth-Ani, distant 21 English miles from Saafir" (Palest. page 102); meaning apparently Beit-Anur, which is laid down on Van de Velde's Map at that distance S.W. of Bir es-Zafaraneh, in the region N.E. of Hebron. But this site is appropriated to Beth-anoth (q.v.), with which the similarity of names has doubtless caused these authors to confuse Enam. The place in question lay in the group of cities situated N.W. of Hebron, on the border of the tribe of Dan (Keil, Comment. on Joshua in loc.). It is perhaps the present Deir el-Butm, with a well adjoining, laid down by Van de Velde (Map) a little beyond Deir Dubibai, N. of Eleutheropolis.
