nain Summary and Overview

(from Heb. nain, "green pastures," "lovely"), the name of a town near the gate of which Jesus raised to life a widow's son (Luke 7:11-17). It is identified with the village called Nein, standing on the north-western slope of Jebel ed-Duhy (=the "hill Moreh" = "Little hermon"), about 4 miles from Tabor and 25 southwest of Capernaum. At the foot of the slope on which it stands is the great plain of Esdraelon. This was the first miracle of raising the dead our Lord had wrought, and it excited great awe and astonishment among the people.

(beauty), a village of Galilee, the gate of which is made illustrious by the raising of the widow's son. #Lu 7:12| The modern Nein is situated on the northwestern edge of the "Little Hermon," or Jebel-ed-Duhy, where the ground falls into the plain of Esdraelon. The entrance to the place, where our Saviour met the funeral, must probably always have seen up the steep ascent from the plain; and here on the west side of the village, the rock is full of sepulchral caves.

NA'IN (beauty), a town in Galilee where Christ raised the widow's dead son to life. Luke 7:11. It is now called Nein, and is on the north-western edge of Little Hermon, 6 miles south-east of Nazareth, and 25 miles south-west of Tell Hum (Capernaum?). Jesus must have met the funeral procession on the steep downward slope, down which a road now leads toward the ancient sepulchral caves on the west side of the village. The ruins indicate that Nain was a considerable town, once protected by walls and gates. It is now a miserable Mohammedan hamlet of about twenty mud and stone houses. It is in full view of Mount Tabor, and often used by travellers as a stopping-place for luncheon.

The scene of Christ's raising the widow's son (Luke 7:12). Now Nein on N.W. verge of jebel ed Duhy (Little Hermon) where it slopes down to Esdraelon plain. The rock W. of the village abounds in cave tombs, also in the E. side. Eighteen miles from Capernaum, where Jesus had been the preceding day. Josephus (Ant. 20:5, section 1) notices Nain as on the way from Galilee to Jerusalem, the very way Jesus was going