STRONGS NUMBER H5871


Word Summary
Ayin: a spring (of water)
Original Word: עַיִן
Transliteration: Ayin
Phonetic Spelling: (ah'-yin)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a spring (of water)
Meaning: Ain -- a spring (of water)
Strong's Concordance
Ain

The same as ayin; fountain; Ajin, the name (thus simply) of two places in Palestine -- Ain.

see HEBREW ayin

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5871. Ayin

III. עַ֫יִןproper name, of a location 1. לָעָ֑יִן‎, on northeast border of Canaan Numbers 34:11, ᵐ5ἐπὶ πηγάς

2. a. in Negeb of Judah Joshua 15:32 (+ וְרִמּוֺן‎), Levitical city 21:16 (but ᵐ5B Ασα read עָשָׁן‎, as 1 Chronicles 6:44), apparently =

b. 1 Chronicles 19:7 (+ ׳ר‎; assigned to Simeon), ׳וָע ׳ר4:32 (read probably ר ׳וְעֵין‎); probably modern Umm er-Ram¹-m£n, approximately 18 miles southwest from Hebrom, BuhlGeogr.183. — see רִמּוֺן עֵין‎ below