Topic
En
4 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 16:7ISBE
¶ And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
- Numbers 33:9ISBE
And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
- Nehemiah 2:14ISBE
Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
- Proverbs 8:28ISBE
When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 4 references
(`ayin (compare Arabic `Ain)):
The Hebrew word for "spring" or "fountain" (Ge 16:7; Nu 33:9; Ne 2:14; Pr 8:28 (feminine plural)). It occurs in numerous compound words, as EN-GEDI, EN-HADDAH, EN-HAKKORE, EN-HAZOR, EN-RIMMON, EN-ROGEL, EN-SHEMESH (which see). In the same way the word `Ain is a very common component of Arabic names of places throughout Palestine and Syria at the present day. Places with names compounded with "En-" were almost certainly located near a spring.
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.