Anim

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Joshua 15:50

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A city in the mountains of Judah ( Joshua 15:50 ). Derived from Ainain, "the two springs," perhaps at Khirbet el Jif, near Khirbet el Dilbeh, the site of Achsah's upper and lower springs (Conder, Pal. Expl.).

Holman Bible Dictionary

Joshua 15:50

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ANIM ( Joshua 15:60 only). A town of Judah, in the mountains near Eshtemoh. It seems probable that it is the present double ruin of Ghuwein , west of Eshtemoh.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City of Judah in the mountains. Joshua 15:50 . Identified with Ghuwein 35 3' E 31 21' N .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

A'nim. (fountains). A city in the mountains of Judah, named with Eshtemoh and Goshen. Joshua 15:50 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ā´nim ( ענים , ‛ānı̄m , "springs"): One of the cities of the hill country of Judah mentioned immediately after Eshtemoa ( Joshua 15:50 ). It is probably represented by the double ruin of el Ghuwein situated South of es Semu‛a . The surface remains are Byzantine - a Christian town called Anem was here in the 4th century, but it is clearly an ancient site of importance ( PEF , III, 408, Sh, Xxv ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb., Anim', עָנִים , fountains; comp. AEnon; Sept. Ἀείμ v. r. Αἰσάμ ) , a city in the mountains of the tribe of Judah, mentioned between Eshtemoah and Goshen ( Joshua 15:50 ), in the district southwest of Hebron (Keil, Comment. in loc.). Eusebius and Jerome appear to call it Ancea ( Ἀναιά ) , and state that it was wholly inhabited by Jews, lying 9 Roman miles south of Hebron, near another village (with which the name likewise closely agrees) called Ansema ( Ἀνσήμ ), wholly inhabited by Christians ( Onomast. s.v. Ἀνάμ , Anab). Schwarz ( Palest. p. 105) says it is the modern village Ben-Enim, 2 English miles E.N.E. of Hebron, meaning probably Beit- Anim; but this is in a different direction, and is probably the ancient Bethanoth (q.v.). Van de Velde (Memoir, p. 285), although apparently wrong in thinking it may be the Levitical Ain ( Joshua 21:16 ), is probably correct in agreeing with the identification by Wilson ( Lands of Bible, 1. 354; 2:636) with the village Ghuwein, one hour south of Semoa, on the road from Hebron to Moladah; but unnecessarily supposes the Ain mentioned along with Rimmon (q.v.) in the "south" ( Joshua 15:32 ), and apportioned to Simeon ( Joshua 19:7 ), to have been a different one, as he is thus obliged to do. (See Ain).