Place · City
Nain
Named in 1 verse, first in Luke 7:11.
In the Bible
All 1 verse, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Luke
- Luke 7:11
Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain. His disciples went with Him, accompanied by a large crowd.
Events here
Events the dataset sets at Nain. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. AD 28Widow's Son Resurrected
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
(from Heb. nain, “green pastures,” “lovely”), the name of a town near the gate of which Jesus raised to life a widow’s son (Luke 7:11-17). It is identified with the village called Nein, standing on the north-western slope of Jebel ed-Duhy (=the “hill Moreh” = “Little hermon”), about 4 miles from Tabor and 25 southwest of Capernaum. At the foot of the slope on which it stands is the great plain of Esdraelon.
This was the first miracle of raising the dead our Lord had wrought, and it excited great awe and astonishment among the people.