place
Zin
צִן
The Wilderness of Zin was a desert region south of Judah where the Israelites encamped during their wilderness wanderings .
- verses
- 9
- first named
- Numbers 13:21
- last named
- Joshua 15:3
- feature
- region
- coordinates
- 30.97°N · 35.33°E
Zin Desert (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Zin in the text
Zin refers to a desert and wilderness region located south of Judah, east of the Arabah, and west of Edom. During the Israelites' wilderness wanderings, they encamped in the Wilderness of Zin on the border of Edom (Num.20.1; 33:36). It was from here that Moses sent spies to explore the land of Canaan (Num.13.21). Later, Moses and Aaron rebelled against God's command to speak to the rock to bring forth water, instead striking it twice (Num.27.14). As a result, they were not allowed to enter the Promised Land. The Wilderness of Zin formed part of the southern border of the land allotted to Judah (Jos.15.1,3). It marked the extreme southern limit of the Promised Land (Num.34.3-4). The Wilderness of Zin is also associated with Kadesh (Num.33.36), a significant site during Israel's wilderness journey. The name "Zin" may be related to a Hebrew term meaning "flat" or "low," possibly referring to its lower elevation compared to the surrounding regions.
Relations
Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Zin 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.
9 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (6), Deuteronomy (1) and Joshua (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 9, across 3 books. The name is written 10 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources