Difference between revisions of "Ain"

<p> ("eye".) </p> <p> '''1.''' Fountain, spring, which flashes in the landscape like a gleaming eye. Distinguished from '''''Beer''''' , a dug well (&nbsp;Exodus 15:27), "wells," rather springs. [[Generally]] in compositions En-gedi, "fountain of kids," En-dor, "fountain of the house," etc. Plural in &nbsp;John 3:23, AEnon; like the [[Yorkshire]] [[Fountains]] Abbey. Riblah, E. of [[Ain]] (Hebrew the spring), marks the eastern boundary of [[Palestine]] (&nbsp;Numbers 34:11). [[Riblah]] is identified as on the [[N. E]]  side of the Hermon mountains; and Ain answers to Ain el 'Azy (nine miles from Riblah, on the N.E. side), the source of the Orerites. </p> <p> '''2.''' A southern city of Judah, afterward of Simeon, then assigned to the priests (&nbsp;Joshua 15:32; &nbsp;Joshua 19:7; &nbsp;Joshua 21:16). </p>