Bible Location
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Kain was a town in the hill-country edge near the wilderness of Judah, associated with the Kenites. It is important because it sits in the sparse southern terrain where clan identity and settlement meet. First appears in Num 24:22.1
AI summary: Kain matters because it preserves the memory of a borderland community rather than a major urban center. The references place it in the south and connect it conceptually with the Kenite presence on Judah's margins. The cross references present Kain as a small southern town of desert-edge identity.1
A town of the Kenites, a branch of the Midianites (Josh. 15:57), on the east edge of the mountain above Engedi; probably the “nest in a rock” mentioned by Balaam (Num. 24:21). It is identified with the modern Yekin, 3 miles south-east of Hebron. 3
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.