Wilderness of Zin
zin (tsin; Sin):
(1) A town in the extreme South of Judah, on the line
separating that province from Edom, named between the ascent
of Akrabbim and Kadesh-barnea (Nu 34:4; Josh 15:3). It must
have lain somewhere between Wady el-Fiqra (the ascent of
Akrabbim?) and `Ain Qadis (Kadesh-barnea); but the site has
not been recovered.
(2) The Wilderne...
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A desert south of Judah
Nu 13:21; 20:1; 27:14; 33:36; 34:3,4; De 32:51; Jos
15:1,3...
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(flat), the name given to a portion of the desert tract
between the Dead Sea, Ghor, and Arabah on the east, and the
general plateau of the Tih which stretches westward. The
country in question consists of two or three successive
terraces of mountain converging to an acute single at the Dead
Sea's southern verge, toward which also they slope. K...
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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.)....
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The N.E. portion of the wilderness of Paran. (See PARAN.)
The spring of Kadesh lay in it (Numbers 20:1; Numbers 27:14;
Deuteronomy 32:51). frontKADESH.) It probably stretched from
the Arabah on the E. to Kadesh on the W. The wilderness of
Zin formed the immediate boundary of Canaan (Numbers 13:21;
Numbers 34:3), and comprised also the whole ru...
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So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of
Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath....
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Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole
congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and
the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was
buried there....
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For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin,
in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water
before their eyes: that [is] the water of Meribah in Kadesh in
the wilderness of Zin....
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And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the
wilderness of Zin, which [is] Kadesh....
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