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Zaanaim

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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 [RSV, '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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Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Zaanaim'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ebd/​z/zaanaim.html. 1897.
 
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