Zin

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ZIN (Num_13:21; Num_20:1; Num_27:14; Num_33:36; Num_34:3; Num_34:6, Deu_32:51, Jos_15:1; Jos_15:3).—A region passed through by the Israelites in their journeyings. The most exact indication of its position is given in Num_34:1-29 and Jos_15:1-63. In Num_13:21 ‘the wilderness of Zin’ is named as the southern limit from which the spies began to search the land. In Num_33:36 it is given as one of the stations in the journeyings. The brief note, ‘the same is Kadesh,’ serves to explain the following verse (‘And they journeyed from Kadesh’ …). Num_20:1 records the arrival of the children of Israel ‘in the wilderness of Zin’ in the first month [the year is not stated], and the following Num_20:2-13 relate the events which took place at Meribah. The remaining two passages, Num_27:1-23 and Deu_32:1-52, which are duplicates, refer to the punishment of Moses for his offence at ‘the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.’ Hence it may be inferred (a) that the Wilderness of Zin formed part of the southern boundary of Judah at its eastern end towards the Dead Sea; (b) that Kadesh was included within its limits.
The close similarity between the events recorded in Exo_17:1-16 and Num_20:1-29, and other points of resemblance between occurrences before and after Sinai, suggest the question whether Sin and Zin, the Sin of the pre-Sinai and the Zin of the post-Sinai narrative, may be variations developed in the course of tradition. The hypothesis does not appear improbable, but the narrative in its present form indicates two regions bearing different names.
Cf. Paran, Sin [Wilderness of].
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


Zin. (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, Kadeshbarnea. . Num_13:21; Num_20:1; Num_27:14; Num_33:36; Num_34:3; Jos_15:1.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


Much of southern Palestine was a dry region known as the Negeb. Within this region lay the barren Wilderness of Zin. It lay south-west of the Dead Sea, between the Dead Sea and Kadesh-barnea (Num_20:1-2; Num_27:14; Num_33:36; Num_34:3-5). (For map and other details see PALESTINE, sub-heading ‘Negeb’.)
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.


zin (צן, cin; Σίν, Sı́n):
(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 (Num_34:4; Jos_15:3). It must have lain somewhere between Wâdy el-Fiḳra (the ascent of Akrabbim?) and ‛Ain Ḳadı̄s (Kadesh-barnea); but the site has not been recovered.
(2) The Wilderness of Zin is the tract deriving its name from the town (Num_34:3). It is identified with the wilderness of Kadesh in Num_33:36; while in other places Kadesh is said to be in the wilderness of Zin (Num_20:1; Num_27:14; Deu_32:51). We may take it that the two names refer to the same region. The spies, who set out from Kadesh-barnea, explored the land from the wilderness of Zin northward (Num_13:21; compare Num_32:8). It bordered with Judah ?at the uttermost part of the south? (Jos_15:1). In this wilderness Moses committed the offense which cost him his hope of entering the promised land (Num_27:14; Deu_32:51). It is identical with the uplands lying to the North and Northwest of the wilderness of Paran, now occupied by the ‛Azazimeh Arabs.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Zin, a desert on the south of Palestine, and westward from Idumea, in which was situated the city of Kadesh-barnea (Num_13:21; Num_20:1; Num_27:14). Its locality is therefore fixed by the considerations which determine the site of Kadesh to the western part of the Arabah south of the Dead Sea.




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.



(Heb. Tsin צַן [with. ה directive, Tsinah, צַנָה, Num_34:4; or Tsintnah, צַנָּה, Joshua 10; Joshua , 3 ], a flat [plain or palm-tree]; Sept. Σίν v.r. Σινά ‘etc.; Vulg. Sin), a wilderness (מַדַבָּר) or open, uncultivated region on the south of Palestine and westward from Idumaea, in which was situated the city of Kadesh-barnea (Num_13:22; Num_20:1; Num_27:14; Num_33:36; Num_34:3; Deu_32:51; Jos_15:1). It evidently was a portion of the desert tract between the Dead Sea, Ghor, and Arabah (possibly including the two latter, or portions of them) 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 angle (like stairs where there is a turn in the flight) at the Dead Sea's southern verge, towards which also they slope. Here the drainage finds its chief vent by the Wady el-Fikreh into the Ghor, the remaining waters running by smaller channels into the Arabah, and ultimately by the Wady el-Jeib also to the Ghor. Judging from natural features in the vagueness of authority, it is likely that the portion between and drained by these wadies is the region in question; but where it ended westward, whether at any of the above -named terraces or blending imperceptibly with that of Paran, is quite uncertain. Josephus (Ant. 4:4, 6) speaks of a “hill called Sin” (Σίν) where Miriam, who died in Kadesh, when the people had “come to the desert of Zin,” was buried. This “Sin” of Josephus may recall the name Zin, and, being applied to a hill, may, perhaps, indicate the most singular and wholly isolated conical acclivity named Moderah (Madura, or Madara), standing a little south of the Wady Fikreh, near its outlet into the Ghor. This would precisely agree with the tract. of country above indicated (Num_20:1; see Seetzen,Reisen, 3, Hebron to Madara; Wilton, Negeb, p. 127, 134). SEE KADESH.



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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