Punon

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(See Pinon .)  Genesis 36:41. An Edomite ducal city; the Phoeno of Eusebius and Jerome, the penal abode of convicts sent to labour in the neighbouring copper mines. The Septuagint have Finon . Between Petra and Zoar, probably near the Roman road between them. Seetzen heard of a ruined castle, Fenan (3:17). Phoeno probably lay E. of, not within, Edom; as the Roman road is much to the right of the direct line of march. Punon may coincide with Kala'At Aneizeh , between el Ahsa (Oboth) and Ma'an ( Numbers 33:42). Israel's second last stage before reaching the plains of Moab.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Pu'non. (Darkness). One of the halting-places, of the Israelite host, during the last portion of the wandering.  Numbers 33:42-43. By Eusebius and Jerome, it is identified with Phaeno, which contained the copper-mines, so well known at that period, and was situated between Petra and Zoar.

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

A place were Israel pitched in the wilderness, between Petra and Segor, Some have thought that it was here Moses set up the brazen serpent,  Numbers 21:9 and  Numbers 33:42. The name Punon means precious stone.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

PUNON . A station of the Israelites (  Numbers 33:42-43 ). Cf. also art. Pinon.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Numbers 33:42-43 Genesis 36:41

Morrish Bible Dictionary

One of the later halting places of the Israelites.  Numbers 33:42,43 .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Punon', פוּנֹן , Darkness [Gesenius], Ore-Pit [Fiirst]; Sept. Φινών v. r. Φινώ ) , a camp station of the Israelites on their journey to Canaan ( Numbers 33:42), on the east side of the mountains of Edom, and perhaps belonging to that district, since a duke Pinon is mentioned ( Genesis 36:41;  1 Chronicles 1:52) among the chieftains of the Edomites. It lay next beyond Zalmonah, between it and Oboth, and three days' journey from the mountains of Abarim, which formed the boundary of Moab. By Enusebius and Jerome ( Onomasticon, Φινῶν , "Fenon") it is identified with Pinon, the seat of the Edomitish tribe of that name, and, further, with Phoeno, which contained the copper-mines so noted at that period, and was situated between Petra and Zoar; It is often mentioned by other Christian authors (see Gesenius, Thesaur. p. 1095). It is not to be identified with the modern Tufileh (Burckhardt, 2, 677; see Raumer, Zug Der Israel, p. 46); but on the Kalaat Phenan of Seetzen (Zach's Monatl. Corresp. 17:137) we must await more particular intelligence. (See Exode).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pū´non ( פּוּנן , pūnōn ): A desert camp of the Israelites, the second after leaving Mt. Hor (  Numbers 33:42 ,  Numbers 33:43 ). Eusebius ( Onom 299 85; 123 9) mentions an Idumean village, North of Petra, in the desert, where convicts were mining copper, called Phinon or Phainon. These are doubtless identical. See Wanderings Of Israel .

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Pu´non, one of the stations of the Israelites in the desert [WANDERING].