Janum

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ja'num. (Slumber). A town of Judah, in the mountain district, apparently not far from Hebron .  Joshua 15:53.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City in the highlands of Judah.  Joshua 15:53 . Identified with Beni Naim, 31 31' N, 35 9' E .

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(in the kethib or Hebrew text). A town of Judah in the mountain district near Hebron ( Joshua 15:53).

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:53Janim

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:53

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Yazunm', יָנוּם , Slumber, otherwise for יָנוּן , propagation; Septuag. Ι᾿Ανούμ v. R. Ι᾿Εμαϊ v Ν , Vulg. Janun), a town in the mountains of Judah, mentioned between Eshean and Beth-tappuah ( Joshua 15:53). The Heb. text has יָניּם (das s if Anim', יָנַים ) by a manifest error, which is corrected in the Masoretic marg.; many copies have Yanus', יָנוּס , flight, as in the Eng. margin ‘ Janus." The Syriac version has Yalum. Eusebius (Onomast. s.v. Ι᾿Ανουά ) mentions a place, Janua, three miles south of Legio, but admits that it cannot be the locality in question. M. de Saulcy (Nar. 1, 437) thinks the site may possibly be marked by the ruins Of Jenheh, at the foot of a hill nearly south of Hebron; but, according to Dr. Robinson, the remains are little more than those of caves (Bib. Res. 2, 472). The associated names appear to indicate a district immediately northwest of Hebron (Keil. Comment on Joshua ad loc). The position corresponds with that of a ruined site, Ras Jabreh, marked on the first edition of Van de Velde's map immediately on' the west of the road directly north from Hebron to Jerusalem, and adjoining Khurbet enl-Nasara; but the second edition of the map omits both these sites, though the latter is explicitly mentioned in the Memoir (p. 247) as "a ruined village" visited by him as well as by Dr. Robinson (Researches, 1, 317).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jā´num ( Ḳerē , ינוּם , yānūm , Kethı̄bh ינים , yānı̄m ). See Janim .