pearl; gem; that beholds
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
PINON.An Edomite duke (Gen_36:41, 1Ch_1:52), prob. same name as Punon of Num_33:42 f.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Gen_36:41. Eusebius and Jerome (Onomasticon) identify the seat of the tribe with Punon, an Israelite station in the wilderness, and Phoeno between Petra and Zoar, the site of the Roman copper mines.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Pi'non. (darkness). One of the "dukes" of Edom, ? that is, head or founder of a tribe of that nation. Gen_38:41; 1Ch_1:52.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
pı̄?non (פּינן, pı̄nōn, ?darkness?): One of the ?chiefs of Edom? (Gen_36:41; 1Ch_1:52).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Pinon
(Heb. Pinon', פַּינֹו. prob. i. q. Punon; Sept. Φεινών; Vulg. Phinon), one of the dukes of Edom; that is, head or founder of a tribe of that nation (Gen_36:41; 1Ch_1:52). By Eusebius and Jerome (Ononzasticon, Φινῶν, and Fenon) the seat of the tribe is said to have been at Punon, one of the stations of the Israelites in the Wilderness; which again they identify with Phaeno, between Petra and Zoar, the site of the famous Roman copper-mines. No name answering to Pinon appears to have been yet discovered in Arabic literature or among the existing tribes. SEE PUNON.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.