Bible Location
Meaning: same as Aiath · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
This Ain entry should be read as a place-name within Judah and Simeon, not simply as the common word for a spring. It is important because biblical naming often turns ordinary landscape terms into specific settlements. First appears in Num 34:11.1
AI summary: Ain matters because common geographic words can also become stable place names. In the tribal lists it belongs to the southern settlement world and should be read as a named town rather than a generic water source.1
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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.