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Ναΐν

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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle → Love that moves the sun and the other stars

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145

English (Strong)

probably of Hebrew origin (compare נְאוֹת); Nain, a place in Palestine: Nain.

English (Thayer)

(WH Ναΐν (cf. Iota) (נָאִין, a pasture; cf. Simonis, Onomast. N. T., p. 115), ἡ, Nain, a town of Galilee, situated at the northern base of Little Hermon; modern Nein, a petty village inhabited by a very few families, and not to be confounded with a village of the same name beyond the Jordan (Josephus, b. j. 4,9, 4): Luke 7:11. (Cf. Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, i. 552f.)

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