Bible Location
Meaning: buckler; coldness · 7 cross references · Modern-day map available
Zin is the southern wilderness region on the edge of the Negeb and Paran, near Kadesh. It is important because it belongs to the hard landscape of Israel's wilderness years and helps define the southern boundary of the promised land. First appears in Num 13:21.1
Place meaning
buckler; coldness
Coordinates
30.69, 34.49
First appears
Num 13:21
AI summary: Zin is one of the key desert names in the Pentateuch because it gathers together movement, testing, and boundary. It is the setting of the Kadesh narratives, including moments of failure and complaint, and it appears in the land descriptions that mark Israel's southern frontier. Because of that, Zin is both a lived wilderness and a cartographic edge. The cross references present it as a severe southern region where the wilderness generation's story and the map of inheritance come together.1
Place meaning
buckler; coldness
Latitude
30.69
Longitude
34.49
Bible references
7
A low palm-tree, the south-eastern corner of the desert et-Tih, the wilderness of Paran, between the Gulf of Akabah and the head of the Wady Guraiyeh (Num. 13:21). To be distinguished from the wilderness of Sin (q.v.). 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.