AIN . 1 . A town in the neighbourhood of Riblah ( Numbers 34:11 ), probably the modern el-’Ain near the source of the Orontes. 2 . A town in Judah ( Joshua 15:32 ), or Simeon ( Joshua 19:7 ), where Ain arid Rimmon should be taken together. It is probably Umm er-Ramâmîn , to the N. of Beersheba.
W. Ewing.
AIN . The sixteenth letter of the Heb. alphabet, and so used to introduce the sixteenth part of Psalms 119:1-176 .