zin Summary and Overview

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.).

(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. Kadesh lay in it, and here also Idumea was conterminous with Judah; since Kadesh was a city in the border of Edom. [See KADESH]. #Nu 13:21; 20:1; 27:14; 33:36; 34:3; Jos 15:1|

ZIN (a low palm tree). The wilderness of Zin was a part of the Arabian desert south of Palestine. Num 13:21-22; Jer 34:3. It joined the territory of Judah, Josh 15:1, Num 1:3; and lay west of Idumaea. Num 20:1; Eze 27:14; Num 33:36. Kadesh is sometimes spoken of as in the wilderness of Zin, Num 33:36, and again as in the wilderness of Paran. Num 13:26. This is explained by the fact that "Paran" was the general name for the whole desert of et-Tih, while Zin was the south-eastern corner of that desert, between the Gulf of Akabah on the south and the head of Wady Garaiyeh. It was south and south-west of 'Azazimeh Mountains, and east of the Ghor and Arabah. Zl'NA. See Zizah.