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Enaim

A JudEean town in the Shephelah (Jos 15M ‘Enam’; , AV ‘in an open place," RV’ in the gate of Enaim’; , AV ‘openly,’ RV " at Enaim’). From the narrative in we gather that it lay between Adullam and Timnah. The site is not identified. Conder suggests Khirbet Wady Alin, near Beth-shemesh and En-gannlm. W. Ewing.

Enan

Prince of Naphtall at the first census ( , P).

Enasibus

Enasibus (1 Esdras 9:34) = Eliashib. The form is probably due to reading ai as N.

Encampment by the Sea

One of the stations in the itinerary of the children of Israel, where they encamped after leaving Elim, . If the position of Elim be in the Wady Gharandel, then the camp by the sea is on the shore Qf the Gulf of Suez, somewhere south of the point where the Wady Tayibeh opens to the coast. The curious return of the line of march to the seashore is a phenomenon that has always arrested the attention of travellers to Mt. Sinai: and if Mt. Sinai be really in the so-called Sinaitic peninsula, the camp can be located within a half-mile.

Enchantment

See Magic Divination and Sorcery.

En-dor

A town of Manasseh in the territory of Issachar () the home of a woman with a familiar spirit consulted by Saul on the eve of the battle of Gilboa (): and, according to a psalmist (83), the scene oi the rout of Jabin and Sisera. It is identified with Bndur, south of Tabor, where are several ancient caves. R. A. S. Macalister.

En-eglaim

A locality on the Dead Sea, mentioned along with En gedi (). It has not been identified, but is not improbably ‘Ain Feshkah (Robinson, BRP ii. 489). Tristram {Bible Places, 9Z) would make it’ Ain Hajlah (Beth-hoglah). In any case, it probably lay to the N. towards the mouth of the Jordan.

Enemessar

Name of a king of Assyria in Gr. MSS of Tobit 1:2. where the Syriac and Lat. give Shalmaneser, who is probably meant. The corruption is best accounted for by the loss of 5ft and I and the transposition of m and n; but naturally many explanations may be offered without conviction. C. H. W. Johns.

Eneneus

Eneneus (1 Esdras 5:8). One of the twelve leaders of the return from Babylon under Zerubbabel. The name is omitted In the parallel list in , which gives only eleven leaders; but answers to Nahamani, .

EN-GANNIM,— 1. . A town of Judah noticed with Zanoah and Eshtaol; perhaps the ruin Umm Jina in the valley near Zanoah. 2. (in Anem). A town of Issachar given to the Levites; nowjenin, a town on the S. border of Esdraelon, with a fine spring, gardens, and palms. It marked the S. limit of Galilee, and appears to have been always a flourishing town.

En-gedi

(‘spring of the kid’ ). A place ‘in the wilderness’ in the tribe of Judah (). where David for a time was in hiding ( ). Here the Moabites and Ammonites came against Jehoshaphat (). The Shulammite compares her beloved to henna flowers in En-gedi () and in Ezekiel’s ideaUstio vision of the healing of the Dead Sea waters, a picture is drawn of fishers here spreading their nets (). An alternative name is Hazazon-tamar, found in and . There is no doubt of the identification of En-gedi with ‘Ain Jidy, a spring of warm water that breaks out 330 ft. above the level of the Dead Sea, about the middle of its W. side. It once was cultivated, but is now given over to a wild semi-tropical vegetation. R. A. S. Macalister.

Engine

See Fortification, etc., § 6.

James Hastings (ed.), with John A. Selbie and John C. Lambert, Dictionary of the Bible (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909). Public domain. Scan of Cornell University Library’s copy from the Internet Archive; text from its OCR, with the Bible references read again from the page images.