Anab

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Joshua 11:2115:50

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A town once belonging to the Anakim, in the mountains of Judah (Joshua 11:21); still so-called; ten miles S.S.W. of Hebron.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Joshua 11:21Joshua 15:50

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ANAB . A city of Judah in the Negeb hills ( Joshua 11:21; Joshua 15:50 ), inhabited first by the Anakim. Now the ruin ‘Anab near Debir.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City mentioned with Debir and Hebron in the mountains of Judah, where the Anakims dwelt. Joshua 11:21; Joshua 15:50 . It retains the same name, 34 56' E 31 24' N .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

A'nab. (grape-town). A town in the mountains of Judah, Joshua 15:50, named with Debir and Hebron as once belonging to the Anakim. Joshua 11:21.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ā´nab ( ענב , ‛ănābh , "grapes"; Codex Vaticanus, Ἀνών , Anō̇n or Ἀνώβ , Anō̇b ): Mentioned in the list of cities which fell to Judah (Joshua 15:50 ). In the list it follows Debir, from which it was a short distance to the Southwest. It lay about twelve males to the Southwest of Hebron. It was a city of the Anakim, from whom Joshua took it (Joshua 11:21 ). Its site is now known as the rum ‛Anab ̌ .

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

A´nab, one of the cities in the mountains of Judah, from which Joshua expelled the Anakim (Joshua 11:21; Joshua 15:50).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb., Anab', עֲנָב , grape-town; Sept. Ἀνάβ v. r. Ἀναβώθ and Ἀνών ), one of the cities in the mountains of Judah, from which Josh ua expelled theAnakim (Joshua 11:21; Joshua 15:50). Nearly west of Main (Maon) Dr. Robinson (Researches, 2, 195) observed a place called Anab, distinguished by a' small tower. Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Anob) both confound it with a Beth-Anab' (q.v.) lying a few miles from Diospolis or Lydda (Reland, Palest. p. 560). Schwarz (Palest. p. 136) says it is the village Anabah, three English miles east of Ramleh, meaning doubtless the Annabeh marked on Zimmermann's Map; but this is not at all in the mountains of Judah, as stated in both passages of Joshua.