Topic
Punon
2 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 33:42Smith · ISBE · Nave A camping ground of the Israelites, in their forty years of wandering
And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
- Numbers 33:43Smith · ISBE · Nave A camping ground of the Israelites, in their forty years of wandering
And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 2 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 2 references
pu'-non (punon): A desert camp of the Israelites, the second after leaving Mt. Hor (Nu 33:42,43). 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.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.