fountain of an apple, or of inflation
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
EN-TAPPUAH.A place on the boundary of Manasseh (Jos_17:7). Generally identified with a spring near Yâsûf, in a valley to the S. of Mukhna, which drains into Wady Kanah. The place is probably the Tappuah (wh. see) of Jos_16:8; Jos_17:8.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
En-tap'puah. Jos_17:7. See Tappuah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
en-tap?ū̇-a, en-ta-pū?a (עין תּפוּח, ‛ēn tappūaḥ; πηγὴ Θαφθώθ, pēgḗ Thaphthō̇th, ?apple spring?): Probably in the land of Tappuah which belonged to Manasseh, although Tappuah, on the border of Manasseh, belonged to Ephraim (Jos_17:7 f). It lay on the border of Ephraim which ran southward East of Shechem, and is probably to be identified with the spring at Yāsūf, about 3 miles North of Lebonah.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
En-tappuah
(Hebrews Eyn Tappu'ach, עֵין תִּפּוּחִ), fountain of Tappuah; Sept. ἡ πηγὴ Θαπφουέ v.r. Θαφθώθ), a spring near the city Tappuah (q.v.), put for that place in Jos_17:7 (comp. Jos_17:8).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.