- verses
- 1
- first named
- John 3:23
- last named
- John 3:23
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 32.38°N · 35.53°E
Umm el Umdan (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 5 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Aenon in the text
Aenon is mentioned in Jhn.3.23 as a place where John the Baptist was baptizing people because there was plenty of water there. It is described as being near Salim, which suggests that both locations were in the same general area. The exact location of Aenon is uncertain, but scholars have proposed several possible sites in the Jordan Valley, such as Wadi Farah (a perennial stream) or 'Ain Farah (a spring) near the Jordan River.
The name Aenon is derived from the Greek word "aenon," meaning "springs" or "fountains," indicating that the site had a plentiful water supply, which was necessary for John's baptismal ministry. The mention of Aenon in the context of John's ministry highlights the importance of baptism and the need for adequate water resources to perform this ritual. Some scholars also see the reference to Aenon as an indication of John's growing influence and the expanding scope of his ministry beyond the immediate region of the Jordan River.
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Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Aenon is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in John (1).
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Where they appear
What happened here
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