ITHNAN.A city in the Negeb of Judah (Jos_15:23); site uncertain.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A town in the far S. of Judah, bordering on the desert (Jos_15:23-24; 1Sa_15:4).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ith'nan. (given). One of the towns in the extreme south of Judah. Jos_15:23 No trace of its existence has yet been discovered.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ith?nan (יתנן, yithnān): A town in the South of Judah mentioned along with Hazor and Ziph (Jos_15:23), apparently the ?Ethnan? of Jerome (Onom 118 13). Not identified.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ithnan
(Heb. Yithnan', יַתְנָן, bestowed, otherwise distance; Sept. Ι᾿θνάν [but the Vat. MS. joins it to the preceding word, Α᾿σοριωνάν, and the Alex. to the following, Ι᾿θναζίφ],Vulg. Jethram), one of the cities in the south of Judah, mentioned between Hazor and Ziph (Jos_15:23); perhaps lying along the southern edge of the highland district. It cannot well have been the Jedna of the Onomasticon (Ι᾿εδνά, the modern Idhna), for this is in the mountains west of Hebron (see Keil Comment. ad loc.). The enumeration in Jos_15:32 requires us to join this with the following (there being no copula between), Ithnan-Ziph, i.e. Zephath (q.v.). SEE JUDAH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.