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Nain

People's Dictionary of the Bible

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Nain (nâ'in), beauty. A town in Galilee where Christ raised the widow's dead son to life. Luke 7:11. It is now called Nein, and is on the northwestern edge of Little Hermon, six miles southeast of Nazareth, and 25 miles southwest of Tell Hum (Capernaum?).

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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Nain'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​rpd/​n/nain.html. 1893.
 
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