Nain (Gr. Nain, “delightful” or “grass”; perhaps a transliteration of Heb. nîn, “offspring”). Town or village in Galilee where Jesus raised the son of a widow (Luk 7:11). The place is now the village called Nein, and it is about 8 km north of Jezreel, on a plateau, at the foot of the Col de Moreh, now called Little Hermon (fig 483). Map XVI, C-3.
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
Near its gates Jesus raised a widow’s son from the dead (Luk 7:11-17). It is located on the northwest slope of Mount Moré. To the east are hand-dug graves.
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
Southeast of Nazareth, on the edge of Mount More, is the village of Na†™im, probably identified with the Biblical Nain (Luke 7:11) in which Jesus raised a widow’s son from the dead. The Hebrew form of the name Na†™im means †œpleasant† and the village was known to the Arabs as Nain. A Franciscan church occupies the traditional site of the miracle.
Source: Archaeological Biblical Dictionary
(Naim).
(green pastures).
City near Nazareth, where Jesus raised a widow’s son, Luke 7:11-17.
Christian Bible Dictionary
Dr. J. Dominguez
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Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
(Nice). City of Galilee where the Lord Jesus raised the son of a widow (Luke 7:11-17). It is known today as Nein, 9 km southeast of †¢Nazareth, situated at a height from which the plain of †¢Esdraelon can be admired.
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
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vet, City where Christ raised the only son of a widow (Lk. 7:11-17). This town continues to exist under the name of Nein; It is located in the northwest corner of Jebel ed-Duhy, a hill also called Little Hermon, 3 km west-southwest of Endor, and 8 km south-southeast of Nazareth. Nein is currently a village with some ruins, and some caves that had served as tombs in the past.
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
A small and charming village in Galilee, very close to Mount Tabor, at the foot of Little Hermon, where Jesus Christ raised the son of a widow (Lk 7:11-17).
MNE
FERNANDEZ RAMOS, Felipe (Dir.), Dictionary of Jesus of Nazareth, Editorial Monte Carmelo, Burbos, 2001
Source: Dictionary of Jesus of Nazareth
The town of Nain is a small village on the northeast slope of the mountain called Little Hermon. It is about 13 km southeast of Nazareth, and still retains the name in the form of Nein. It was once very prosperous, but now it only has a population of 200. There are many ancient ruins to show it was a good size place. Its former prosperity and importance are confirmed by the many ancient tombs found in the rocks on the eastern side of the site.
From this city, which was previously on top of a hill, you have a beautiful view of an extensive territory. Carmelo can be seen across the plains, on the other side of the mountains that surround Nazareth; and beyond Mount Tabor, the snowy heights of Hermon. To the south are the heights of Mount Gilboa and the highlands of Samaria.
Here Jesus raised the widow’s son from the dead, Luke 7:11-17.
Source: Geographic Dictionary of the Bible
City of Galilee where Jesus Christ raised the only son of a widow. (Lu 7:11-17) It is identified with the village of Nein (Na`im), in the northwestern part of Jebel Dahi (Giv`at Ha-More; the hill of More), located about 10 km. to the SSE. of Nazareth. It is located in the area where Jerome and Eusebius located the ancient city, an attractive natural setting on the plain of Jezreel (Esdrelón). There is a spring there whose waters irrigate this region of excellent olive groves and many fig trees. Although the village is quite small today, the ruins show that in the early centuries it was much larger. (RECORDING, vol. 2, p. 738.)
In the year 31 CE, during the first preaching tour of Galilee, Christ Jesus arrived in Nain from the vicinity of Capernaum, which was about 35 km away. (Lu 7:1-11) It is possible that the mentioned “gate” was simply a partition between the houses through which a road entered Nain, since there is no evidence that the city was ever walled. It was probably at the eastern gate of Nain that Jesus and his disciples met the funeral procession, perhaps on its way to the tombs on the SE hillside. of the modern Nein. Taking pity on the widow who had lost her son, Jesus approached the coffin and raised the boy from the dead. News of this miracle spread throughout the region and even reached Judea. The words “The dead are raised”—which formed part of Jesus’ response to the messengers John the Baptist later sent from prison—may allude to this event as well. (Lu 7:11-22.)
Source: Dictionary of the Bible
It is mentioned only in Lk. 7.11. There is a small village that still bears this name on the Jezreel Plain, a few km S of Nazareth, on the edge of Hermon Lesser, and is generally accepted as the setting for the Gospel account. Surely it must be distinguished from the Nain de Jos., GJ, 4.511, which was located E of the Jordan. This name is probably a corruption of the Hebrew word. nā˓ı̂m, ‘pleasant’, an adjective that describes well the area and the landscapes, if not the village itself. A problem arises, however, from the reference to the city gate (Lk. 7.12); for the village now called Nain was never fortified, and therefore could never have had a gate in the true sense of the term. But the word “door” may have a more elastic use, to indicate the place where the road entered between the houses of Nain. An ingenious suggestion resolves the difficulty by proposing that the site is Shunem (as in the similar account in 2 Kings 4), and that the original word synēm was accidentally reduced to nēm, and was later confused with Nain. Shunem, in any case, is in the same general region.
PFD
Douglas, J. (2000). New Biblical Dictionary: First Edition. Miami: United Bible Societies.
Source: New Bible Dictionary