HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3452
יְשִׁימוֹן
ye.shi.mon — Jeshimon
§ waste, wilderness, desert, desolate place
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Jeshimon
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
The waste, probably some high waste land to the south of the Dead Sea (Num. 21:20; 23:28; 1 Sam. 23:19, 24); or rather not a proper name at all, but simply “the waste” or “wilderness,” the district on which the plateau of Ziph (q.v.) looks down.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.