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| == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56676" /> ==
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| <p> <b> NAIN </b> <b> ( </b> Ναΐν אBCD Ti WH [Note: H Westcott and Hort’s text.] , etc.; Ναείν EGΓΔ, etc., Ναείμ 1 and 209, al pauc) is named only once in Scripture. St. Luke mentions it ( Luke 7:11) as the ‘city’ to which the widow, whose dead son Jesus raised to life, belonged. The miracle was wrought near to the ‘gate,’ and in the presence of ‘much people.’ This [[Nain]] cannot be the same as the village on the E. [Note: Elohist.] side of the [[Jordan]] mentioned by [[Josephus]] ( <i> BJ </i> iv. ix. 4). Robinson ( <i> BMP </i> 2 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] ii. 361) identified Nain with the modern <i> Nein </i> , a collection of squalid huts on the N. slope of <i> Jebel cd-Duhy </i> (Little Hermon), 2 miles W. of [[Endor]] and about a day’s journey from [[Capernaum]] (cf. Luke 7:1; Luke 7:11 (margin)). Robinson’s view has been generally accepted. It agrees roughly with the statements of [[Eusebius]] and Jerome, both of whom place it S. of [[Tabor]] and not far from Endor. Eusebius reckons it 12 miles to the south ( <i> Onom. s.v. </i> Ναείν), [[Jerome]] ( <i> ib. s.v. </i> ‘Naim’) says 2 miles. The situation of the present village is bleak and uninviting, though it commands a wide and interesting view. A few hundred paces above the huts, to the S.E. [Note: Elohist.] , are rock-tombs in the hillside. Ramsay ( <i> [[Education]] of Jesus </i> , Preface, p. ix) says he has ‘little doubt that the ancient city was on the top’ of the hill, somewhere above the modern village. He expresses his belief that this site has more claim to be the ‘city set on a hill’ ( Matthew 5:14) than Safed. It should be noted that Cheyne doubts the correctness of the reading Ναἱν here ( <i> Encyc. Bibl. </i> iii. 3263), and claims Nestle ( <i> Philol. [[Sacra]] </i> , 20) as also recognizing ‘the doubtfulness of the locality assigned in Luke.’ </p> <p> Literature.—Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible iii. 477; Stanley, SP [Note: P [[Sinai]] and Palestine.] 357; Thomson, <i> Land and Book </i> , 445; Tristram, <i> Land of [[Israel]] </i> , 127; Buhl, <i> GAP </i> [Note: AP Geographic des alten Palästina.] 217; Guérin, <i> Galilee, </i> i. 115 f.; Neubaner, <i> Géog. du Talm. </i> [Note: Talmud.] 188; Sanday, <i> [[Sacred]] Sites of the [[Gospels]] </i> , 24, 101; Baedeker-Socin, <i> Pal. </i> [Note: Palestine, Palestinian.] 346; Murray, <i> Handbook for S. and P. </i> 349. </p> <p> A. W. Cooke. </p>
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| | <p> '''Bibliography Information''' McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Nain (2)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/n/nain-2.html. [[Harper]] & Brothers. New York. 1870. </p> |
| == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53006" /> ==
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| <p> <strong> NAIN. </strong> The town where Jesus raised the widow’s son to life ( Luke 7:11 ). The name is found in the modern <em> Nein </em> , a small, squalid village, 6 miles S.E. of Nazareth, on the N. slope of the Hill of Moreh, the so-called ‘Little Hermon.’ The summit of the hill is 1690 feet high, with a white-domed sanctuary, the tomb of the saint from whom the mountain takes its modern name, <em> Jebel ed-Duhy </em> . The village is 744 feet above the sea. Sir W. M. Ramsay thinks ‘there can be little doubt that the ancient city was on the top’ of the hill ( <em> The Education of Christ </em> , Preface, ix), but the evidence is not stated. The present village is insignificant. Ruins stretch to the north, showing that the place was once of some importance; but they are comparatively modern. The rock-cut tombs to the East, however, bespeak a much higher antiquity. The small sanctuary, <em> Maqâm Sîdna ‘Isa </em> , ‘Place of our Lord Jesus,’ on the north, doubtless commemorates the visit of the Saviour. There is no trace of city walls. Tristram was misled by the shape of the ruins ( <em> Land of Israel </em> , 125). ‘The Gate’ was probably the usual entrance from that direction. The site commands an interesting view. [[Across]] a narrow bay of [[Esdraelon]] rises Mt. Tabor, over the eastern shoulder of which the white summit of Hermon is visible; while to the N.W. and W. the eye ranges over the hills of Lower Galilee, and the rolling breadths of the great plain, to Mt. [[Carmel]] by the sea. </p> <p> W. Ewing. </p> | | == References == |
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| == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74115" /> ==
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| <p> '''Na'in.''' ''(Beauty).'' A village of Galilee, the gate of which is made illustrious, by the raising of the widow's son. Luke 7:12. The modern ''Nein'' is situated on the northwestern edge of the ''"Little Hermon",'' or ''Jebel-Ed-Duhy'' , where the ground falls into the plain of Esdraelon. The entrance to the place, where our [[Saviour]] met the funeral, must probably always have seen up the steep ascent from the plain; and here on the west side of the village, the rock is full of sepulchral caves. </p>
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| == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36808" /> ==
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| <p> The scene of Christ's raising the widow's son ( Luke 7:12). Now Nein on N.W. verge of jebel ed Duhy (Little Hermon) where it slopes down to Esdraelon plain. The rock W. of the village abounds in cave tombs, also in the E. side. [[Eighteen]] miles from Capernaum, where Jesus had been the preceding day. Josephus (Ant. 20:5, section 1) notices Nain as on the way from [[Galilee]] to Jerusalem, the very way Jesus was going. </p>
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| == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70544" /> ==
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| <p> [[Nain]] ( ''Nâ'In'' ), ''Beauty.'' A town in Galilee where Christ raised the widow's dead son to life. Luke 7:11. It is now called Nein, and is on the northwestern edge of Little Hermon, six miles southeast of Nazareth, and 25 miles southwest of Tell Hum (Capernaum?). </p>
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| == Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48337" /> ==
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| <p> A city of Palestine, rendered memorable from the Lord Jesus raising the widow's son from death at the gate of this city. (See Luke 7:11) The word is derived from Naham, beauty. </p>
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| == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16733" /> ==
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| <p> Where Christ performed one of his chief miracles, in raising to life a widow's only son, Luke 7:11-17 , was a small village in Galilee, three miles south by west of Mount Tabor: It is now a petty hamlet, called Nein. </p>
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| == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67814" /> ==
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| <p> City near to which the Lord raised to life the widow's son. Luke 7:11 . Identified with <i> Nein, </i> 32 38' N, 35 20' E . The village is approached by a steep and rocky ascent from the plains of Esdraelon. </p>
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| == Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_81162" /> ==
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| <p> a city of Palestine, in which Jesus Christ restored the widow's son to life, as they were carrying him out to be buried. Eusebius says, that this was in the neighbourhood of Endor and Scythopolis, two miles from Tabor, toward the south. </p>
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| == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_32848" /> ==
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| Luke 7:11-17 <p> This was the first miracle of raising the dead our Lord had wrought, and it excited great awe and astonishment among the people. </p>
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| == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42726" /> ==
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| == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_52219" /> ==
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| <p> (Gr. '''''Ναϊ''''' v '''''Ν''''' '';'' according to Simon, from Heb. '''''נָאַין''''' ''Nain', Green Pastures;'' so written in the Eastern versions of the N.T., but Schwarz, ''Palest.'' page 169, writes '''''נעים''''' , as if from '''''נָעַין''''' , ''Gracefulness),'' a town ( '''''Πόλις''''' ) of Palestine, mentioned only in the N.T. as the place where Jesus raised the widow's son to life ( Luke 7:11-17). Josephus speaks of a Nain, but it was different from this, being situated in the south ''(War,'' 4:9, 4). The site of Nain is described by Jerome as being two miles south of Tabor, near Endor ''(Onomast.'' s.v. Naim; Eusebius has twelve miles, but the error is probably that of a copyist writing '''''Ιβ''''' instead of '''''Β''''' . Neither this number, however, nor that of Jerome, is accurate). [[Phocas]] places it north of Tabor (see Reland, ''Palaest.'' page 904). As its name has always been preserved, it was recognised by the Crusaders, and has often been noticed by travellers up to the present day. It has now dwindled to a mean village called ''Nein'' (according to De Saulcy ''[Dead Sea,'' 1:75], ''Nayin,'' pronounced by the Arabs exactly as '''''Ναϊ''''' v '''''Ν''''' ), which contains remains of very ancient buildings, with a fountain (Tristram, Land of Israel, page 130). It stands on a bleak, rocky slope, on the northern declivity of Jebel ed-Duhy (the "hill Moreh" of Scripture, and the "Little Hermon" of modern travellers), directly facing Tabor, from which it is four miles distant, and two and a half miles south- west of Endor. It is a small, poor hamlet, of some twenty houses, or rather huts. Round the houses, however, are pretty extensive ruins; and there are some traces of what appears to be an ancient wall. The most interesting antiquities are tombs, hewn in the rock, a short distance east of the village. It was in this direction our Lord approached, and probably to one or other of those very tombs they were bearing the corpse when he met and arrested the mournful procession (see Thomson, Land and Book, 2:158). The situation of Nain is extremely beautiful. At the foot of the slope on which it stands is the great plain of Esdraelon, bounded on the north by the gracefil wooded hills of Galilee, over which the snow-capped summits of Hermon and [[Lebanon]] ap- pear. See Robinson, Bib. Res. 2:361; [[Van]] de Velde, Syria and Palestine, 2:382; Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, page 357; Porter, Hand-book to Syria, page 358. </p>
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| == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_6627" /> ==
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| <p> ''''' nā´in ''''' ( Ναίν , <i> ''''' Naı́n ''''' </i> ): This town is mentioned in [[Scripture]] only in connection with the visit of Jesus and the miracle of raising the widow's son from the dead Luke 7:11 . The name persists to this day, and in the form of <i> ''''' Nein ''''' </i> clings to a small village on the northwestern slope of <i> ''''' Jebel ''''' </i> <i> ''''' ed ''''' </i> - <i> ''''' Duḥy ''''' </i> ("Hill of Moreh"), the mountain which, since the Middle Ages, has been known as Little Hermon. The modern name of the mountain is derived from <i> ''''' Neby ''''' </i> <i> ''''' Duḥy ''''' </i> whose <i> ''''' wely ''''' </i> crowns the height above the village. There are many ancient remains, proving that the place was once of considerable size. It was never enclosed by a wall, as some have thought from the mention of "the gate." This was probably the opening between the houses by which the road entered the town. Tristram thought he had found traces of an ancient city wall, but this proved to be incorrect. The ancient town perhaps stood somewhat higher on the hill than the present village. In the rocks to the East are many tombs of antiquity. The site commands a beautiful and extensive view across the plain to Carmel, over the [[Nazareth]] hills, and away past Tabor to where the white peak of Hermon glistens in the sun. To the South are the heights of [[Gilboa]] and the uplands of Samaria. The village, once prosperous, has fallen on evil days. It is said that the villagers received such good prices for <i> ''''' simsum ''''' </i> that they cultivated it on a large scale. A sudden drop in the price brought them to ruin, from which, after many years, they have not yet fully recovered. </p>
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| == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16274" /> ==
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| <p> Na´in, a town of Palestine, where Jesus raised the widow's son to life . Eusebius and Jerome describe it as near Endor. </p>
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| | | <ref name="term_52220"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/nain+(2) Nain from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> |
| <ref name="term_56676"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-new-testament/nain Nain from Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament]</ref> | |
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| <ref name="term_53006"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/nain Nain from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_74115"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/nain Nain from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_36808"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/nain Nain from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_70544"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/people-s-dictionary-of-the-bible/nain Nain from People's Dictionary of the Bible]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_48337"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hawker-s-poor-man-s-concordance-and-dictionary/nain Nain from Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_16733"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/american-tract-society-bible-dictionary/nain Nain from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_67814"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/nain Nain from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_81162"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/watson-s-biblical-theological-dictionary/nain Nain from Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_32848"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/nain Nain from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_42726"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/nain Nain from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_52219"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/nain Nain from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_6627"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/nain Nain from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_16274"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/kitto-s-popular-cyclopedia-of-biblial-literature/nain Nain from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature]</ref>
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