Bible Names

Ain: meaning of the name

Ain means “same as Aiath.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Ain in Hebrew and Greek

עַיִן H5871

ʻAyin (ah'-yin) — Ajin, the name (thus simply) of two places in Palestine

the same as H5869 (עַיִן); fountain;

Places named Ain

Ain in Scripture

“Ain” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 34:11

    And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:

  • Joshua 15:32

    And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:

  • Joshua 19:7

    Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:

  • Joshua 21:16

    And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth–shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:32

    And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: