sleepin
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
(in the kethib or Hebrew text). A town of Judah in the mountain district near Hebron (Jos_15:53).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ja'num. (slumber). A town of Judah, in the mountain district, apparently not far from Hebron. Jos_15:53.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
jā?num (Ḳerē, ינוּם, yānūm, Kethı̄bh ינים, yānı̄m). See JANIM.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Janum
(Heb. Yazunm', יָנוּם, slumber, otherwise for יָנוּן, propagation; Septuag. Ι᾿ανούμ v. r. Ι᾿εμαϊvν, Vulg. Janun), a town in the mountains of Judah, mentioned between Eshean and Beth-tappuah (Jos_15:53). The Heb. text has יָניּם(das s if anim', יָנַים) by a manifest error, which is corrected in the Masoretic marg.; many copies have Yanus', יָנוּס, flight, as in the Eng. margin Janus. The Syriac version has Yalum. Eusebius (Onomast. s.v. Ι᾿ανουά) mentions a place, Janua, three miles south of Legio, but admits that it cannot be the locality in question. M. de Saulcy (Nar. 1, 437) thinks the site may possibly be marked by the ruins of Jenheh, at the foot of a hill nearly south of Hebron; but, according to Dr. Robinson, the remains are little more than those of caves (Bib. Res. 2, 472). The associated names appear to indicate a district immediately northwest of Hebron (Keil. Comment on Joshua ad loc). The position corresponds with that of a ruined site, Ras Jabreh, marked on the first edition of Van de Velde's map immediately on' the west of the road directly north from Hebron to Jerusalem, and adjoining Khurbet enl-Nasara; but the second edition of the map omits both these sites, though the latter is explicitly mentioned in the Memoir (p. 247) as a ruined village visited by him as well as by Dr. Robinson (Researches, 1, 317).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.