Bible Location
Meaning: movings; a person asleep · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Zaanannim was the oak or encampment area near Kedesh where Heber the Kenite had pitched his tent. It is important because it belongs to the setting of Sisera's flight and Jael's intervention. First appears in Josh 19:33.1
Place meaning
movings; a person asleep
Coordinates
33.11, 35.53
First appears
Josh 19:33
AI summary: Zaanannim matters because it is part of the quiet landscape that suddenly becomes decisive in Judges. Sisera's flight ends near the tent-world associated with the Kenites, and that domestic setting becomes the scene of deliverance. The cross references present Zaanannim as a northern encampment-place of unexpected reversal.1
Place meaning
movings; a person asleep
Latitude
33.11
Longitude
35.53
Bible references
2
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” (Judg. 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. 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Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated.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.
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.