Zaanaim
Zaanaim, Zaanannim or Bezaanaim is a place name applied to one or two locations in the Hebrew Bible.[1] According to Serge Frolov (2013), its location "cannot be determined with any degree of certainty."[2]
The area was likely given the name Zaanaim because nomads camped there in tents among the towns and cities, with the name meaning "wanderings" or "the unloading of tents."[3]
According to Joshua 19:33, the border of the tribe of
Naftali
passed by the "oak in Zaanannim" (Revised Version).
According to Judges 4:11,
Heber the Kenite's tent, in which Jael killed Sisera, was "as far as the oak in Zaanannim" (Revised Version). Where the Revised Version reads "oak," the King James Version reads "plain." According to Cheyne and Black, an acceptable alternative reading for "oak" in these passages is "terebinth".[4]
Where the Revised Version has "in Zaanannim" above, the Hebrew text reads bṣʿnnym.Mount Tabor.
References
- ISBN 978-90-5356-503-2.
- ISBN 978-0-8028-2967-2.
- Ellicott, Charles John, ed. (1883). An Old Testament Commentary for English Readers: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. p. 192.
- ^ a b Thomas Kelly Cheyne; John Sutherland Black (1903). Encyclopædia biblica: a critical dictionary of the literary, political and religious history, the archæology, geography, and natural history of the Bible. Volume 4, Q-Z. A. and C. Black. p. 5369.
- ^ For the Septuagint's reading (Besemiin or Besenanim), see the New English Translation of the Septuagint at Joshua (Iesous) 19:33 [1].
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Zaanaim". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.