ZAANAIM
- Easton's
- Nave's
- Torrey's
| EASTON'S BIBLE DICTIONARY |
Wanderings; the unloading of tents,
So called probably from the fact of
nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and villages of that region, a place
in the north-west of Lake Merom, near Kedesh, in Naphtali. Here Sisera was slain
by Jael, "the wife of Heber the Kenite," who had pitched his tent in the "plain
[R.V., 'as far as the oak'] of Zaanaim" (Judges 4:11).
It has been, however, suggested by some that, following the LXX. and the
Talmud, the letter b, which in Hebrew means "in," should be taken as a part of
the word following, and the phrase would then be "unto the oak of Bitzanaim," a
place which has been identified with the ruins of Bessum, about half-way between
Tiberias and Mount Tabor.
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