heaps of Hebrews, or of angry men
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
IIM.A city of Judah (Jos_15:29); site unknown. See Iyim, 2.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. Contracted from Ije Abarim, a late stage of Israel's wilderness journey (Num_33:45; Num_21:11), = "ruinous heaps". On the S.E. border of Moab, in the midbar or "wilderness," unenclosed uncultivated land, verdant in spring, but parched and dreary in summer. The "Abarim" distinguishes it from.
2. Another Iim in S.W. Canaan (Jos_15:29). Abarim, ("farther regions or coast regions"), namely, the hills facing Jericho, the whole upland E. of Jordan, the Greek "Peraea." Between Ije Abarim and Dibon Gad were the rivers Zared and Arnon. Compare Deu_2:9-12; Deu_2:13, "rise up," implies the Israelites remained at Iim some time; they were forbidden to assail Moab.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
I'im. (ruins).
1. The partial or contracted form of the name, Ije-Abarim. Num_33:45.
2. A town in the extreme south of Judah. Jos_16:29.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ı̄?im (עיּים, ‛ı̄yı̄m): Same as IYIM (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Iim
(Heb. Iyism', עַיַּיםuins, as in Jer_26:18, etc.), the name of two places.
1. (Sept. Αἰείμ, Vulg. Iim.) A city in the extreme south of Judah, mentioned between Baalah and Azem (Jos_15:29), and therefore doubtless included within the territory set off to Simeon, as the associated places were (Jos_19:3), which afford the only means for a conjectural position nearly midway from the Dead Sea towards the Mediterranean.
2. (Sept. Τα, Vulg. Ijeabarim), both reading the same as in the preceding verse.). One of the stations of the Israelites not long before reaching the Jordan (Num_33:45); usually called fully IJE-ABARIM (Num_33:44).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.