Janum
Janum
(Heb. Yazunm’, , slumber, otherwise for , propagation; Septuag. v. r. v, Vulg. Janun), a town in the mountains of Judah, mentioned between Eshean and Beth-tappuah (Jos 15:53). The Heb. text has (das s if anim’, ) by a manifest error, which is corrected in the Masoretic marg.; many copies have Yanus’, , flight, as in the Eng. margin Janus. The Syriac version has Yalum. Eusebius (Onomast. s.v. ) mentions a place, Janua, three miles south of Legio, but admits that it cannot be the locality in question. M. de Saulcy (Nar. 1, 437) thinks the site may possibly be marked by the ruins of Jenheh, at the foot of a hill nearly south of Hebron; but, according to Dr. Robinson, the remains are little more than those of caves (Bib. Res. 2, 472). The associated names appear to indicate a district immediately northwest of Hebron (Keil. Comment on Joshua ad loc). The position corresponds with that of a ruined site, Ras Jabreh, marked on the first edition of Van de Velde’s map immediately on’ the west of the road directly north from Hebron to Jerusalem, and adjoining Khurbet enl-Nasara; but the second edition of the map omits both these sites, though the latter is explicitly mentioned in the Memoir (p. 247) as a ruined village visited by him as well as by Dr. Robinson (Researches, 1, 317).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Janum (2)
For this locality Conder suggests (Tent Work, 2:337) the present Beni Naim, which lies three miles east of Hebron (a position possible, perhaps, for the group of towns with which it is associated in the sacred text), with cisterns in the vicinity, and thus described (from Guerin) in the Memoirs accompanying the Ordnance Survey (3:325):
“Here I saw in many places ancient materials employed in Arabic buildings. Several fragments of wall still upright in good cut stones attracted my attention. I visited a mosque which covers, according to the tradition of the people, the tomb of Lot. The coffin shown to me consists of a great wooden coffer, covered with a carpet, and probably contains the body of some modern santon revered under the name of Abraham’s nephew. Around this sanctuary extends a court surrounded by a square gallery, which is itself enclosed by a wall built of stones belonging to different periods. On one of them distinguished the trace of a mutilated cross, and one of the people told me that the mosque is supposed to have succeeded a Christian Church. It is at once a sacred edifice and a fortress, for the terraces which cover the gallery are provided with a parapet pierced with loopholes. . . . I was told by the sheik that the place used to be called Kefr Bereik, which confirms Robinson’s identification of the place with Jerome’s Caphar Barnebo.”‘
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Janum
slumber, a town in the mountains of Judah (Josh. 15:53).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Janum
(in the kethib or Hebrew text). A town of Judah in the mountain district near Hebron (Jos 15:53).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Janum
janum (Kere, , yanum, Kethbh , yanm). See JANIM.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Janum
[Ja’num]
City in the highlands of Judah. Jos 15:53. Identified with Beni Naim, 31 31′ N, 35 9′ E.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Janum
H3241
A city of Judah.
Jos 15:53
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Janum
Ja’num. (slumber). A town of Judah, in the mountain district, apparently not far from Hebron. Jos 15:53.