(house of the sun ). - One of the towns which marked the north boundary of Judah. ( Joshua 15:10 ) It is now Ainshems , about two miles from the great Philistine plain, and seven from Ekron.
- A city on the border of Issachar. ( Joshua 19:22 )
- One of the "fenced cities" of Naphtali. ( Joshua 19:38 ; Judges 1:33 )
- An idolatrous temple, or place in Egypt. ( Jeremiah 43:13 ) In the middle ages Heliopolis was still called by the Arabs Ain Shems .
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