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35.54944</span></span></span></a></span></span></div></div> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"><span class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86non&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="Ænon">Ænon</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Site, mentioned in the Gospel of John (3:23) as the place where John the Baptist was baptizing</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sapsaphas_Madaba.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Sapsaphas_Madaba.jpg/250px-Sapsaphas_Madaba.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Sapsaphas_Madaba.jpg/330px-Sapsaphas_Madaba.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Sapsaphas_Madaba.jpg/500px-Sapsaphas_Madaba.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption>Aenon marked on the 6th-century <a href="/wiki/Madaba_Map" title="Madaba Map">Madaba Map</a>, marked as <i>Ainon, where is now Sapsaphas</i>.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Aenon</b> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Αἰνών</span>, <i>Ainṓn</i>), distinguished as <b>Aenon near Salim</b>, is the site mentioned by the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">Gospel of John</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=John%203:23&version=nrsv">John 3:23</a>) as one of the places where <a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John</a> was <a href="/wiki/Baptism" title="Baptism">baptising</a> people, after baptizing <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan" class="mw-redirect" title="Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan">Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BigPic_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BigPic-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sloyan11_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sloyan11-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Aenon is the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Hellenized</a> form of the term for 'spring' or 'natural fountain' in many <a href="/wiki/Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic languages</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> <i>ayn</i> (<span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9F" class="extiw" title="wikt:עין">עין</a></span></span>) and <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> <i>ain</i> or <i>ein</i> (<span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%86" class="extiw" title="wikt:عين">عين</a></span></span>). In the water-poor Middle East, places owning a spring tend to be named after that water source, so that toponyms consisting of or containing the <a href="/wiki/Construct_state" title="Construct state">construct</a> element are common. The particular site mentioned in the Gospel of John is therefore distinguished as "Aenon near Salim".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The name Aenon is commonly used amongst <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> organizations and churches.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Identification_attempts">Identification attempts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenon&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Identification attempts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Information_from_the_Gospel">Information from the Gospel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenon&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Information from the Gospel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Neither "Aenon" nor "Salim" is a unique name, and the Gospel text offers only two additional hints about where Aenon might be located: the most direct information is that "there was plenty of water there" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=John%203:22&version=nrsv">John 3:22</a>), and the second is that it was west of the River Jordan because at Aenon John's disciples talk of the site where John first encountered Jesus as being "on the other side of the Jordan" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=John%203:26&version=nrsv">John 3:26</a>) which is taken to mean east of the river. We also know from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=John%201:28&version=nrsv">John 1:28</a> that that first encounter happened at "Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan",<sup id="cite_ref-BibleHub_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BibleHub-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> named relative to the entrance of the Hebrews from the desert during the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Exodus" title="Book of Exodus">Exodus</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="'Ainun_in_Wadi_Far'a"><span id=".27Ainun_in_Wadi_Far.27a"></span>'Ainun in Wadi Far<span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>a</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenon&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 'Ainun in Wadi Far'a"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One possible location is near the upper source of the <a href="/wiki/Wadi_al-Far%27a_(river)" title="Wadi al-Far'a (river)">Wadi Far'a</a>, an open valley extending from <a href="/wiki/Mount_Ebal" title="Mount Ebal">Mount Ebal</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Jordan_River" title="Jordan River">Jordan River</a>, which is full of springs. There is a place called 'Ainun four miles north of the springs.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BibleHub_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BibleHub-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eusebius:_Saloumias_south_of_Scythopolis">Eusebius: Saloumias south of Scythopolis</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenon&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Eusebius: Saloumias south of Scythopolis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Another possible location, which is by <a href="/wiki/Eusebius" title="Eusebius">Eusebius</a>' description in his <i><a href="/wiki/Eusebius#Onomasticon" title="Eusebius">Onomasticon</a></i> (written before AD 324), is at "a village in the (Jordan) valley, at the eighth milestone from Scythopolis (<a href="/wiki/Beit_She%27an" title="Beit She'an">Beit She'an</a>), ... called Salumias."<sup id="cite_ref-OFM_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OFM-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This view was already supported by the 19th-century <a href="/wiki/Smith%27s_Bible_Dictionary" title="Smith's Bible Dictionary">Smith's Bible Dictionary</a> and the 1915 <a href="/wiki/International_Standard_Bible_Encyclopedia" title="International Standard Bible Encyclopedia">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</a><sup id="cite_ref-BibleHub_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BibleHub-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is still favoured by some.<sup id="cite_ref-Noort_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noort-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GibsonCave_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GibsonCave-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ICCS_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ICCS-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Madaba_Map:_east_of_the_Jordan_near_Jericho">Madaba Map: east of the Jordan near Jericho</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenon&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Madaba Map: east of the Jordan near Jericho"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In addition to Aenon near Salem, the 6th-century <a href="/wiki/Madaba_Map" title="Madaba Map">Madaba Map</a> shows a second Aenon right across the Jordan from <a href="/wiki/Bethabara" class="mw-redirect" title="Bethabara">Bethabara</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Jericho" title="Jericho">Jericho</a>. In the Gospel of John, "<a href="/wiki/Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan" class="mw-redirect" title="Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan">Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan</a>" is indicated as the place where Jesus was baptized by John; in some translations of the Bible, the name <i>Bethany</i> is instead transcribed as "Bethabara" (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/John#1:28" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/John">1:28</a>). On the Madaba Map, Bethabara is on the right bank of the Jordan, while this Aenon is on the left.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Is it from Piccirillo & al.? Noort might also be helpful, is worth checking. (November 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenon&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al_Maghtas" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Maghtas">Al Maghtas</a>, the traditional site of Jesus' baptism <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Qasr_el_Yahud" class="mw-redirect" title="Qasr el Yahud">Qasr el Yahud</a>, the western (<a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a>) side of Al Maghtas</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptism_of_Jesus" title="Baptism of Jesus">Baptism of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethabara" class="mw-redirect" title="Bethabara">Bethabara</a>, a name used by some versions of the New Testament for the site of Jesus' baptism</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus" title="Chronology of Jesus">Chronology of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Jesus" title="Ministry of Jesus">Ministry of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Testament_places_associated_with_Jesus" title="New Testament places associated with Jesus">New Testament places associated with Jesus</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenon&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenon&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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id="cite_note-BigPic-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-BigPic_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Nichols (2009), p. 12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sloyan11-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Sloyan11_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sloyan (1987), p. 11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=John%203:23&version=nrsv">John 3:23</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BibleHub-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BibleHub_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BibleHub_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BibleHub_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output 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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://biblehub.com/topical/a/aenon.htm">"Aenon"</a>. <i>BibleHub.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 March</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BibleHub.com&rft.atitle=Aenon&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbiblehub.com%2Ftopical%2Fa%2Faenon.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAenon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Easton%27s_Bible_Dictionary" title="Easton's Bible Dictionary">Easton's Bible Dictionary</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-OFM-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-OFM_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Piccirillo et al. (2000)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Noort-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Noort_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Noort (2004), p. 229.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GibsonCave-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-GibsonCave_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gibson (2004), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nCdvvTsvuVAC&pg=PT245">quote</a>: "About twelve kilometres (or eight miles according to Eusebius) to the south of Beth Shean (Scythopolis), there is a region which would fit Aenon perfectly. This location has numerous springs: I have counted thirteen of them in a small area four by four kilometres and, interestingly, <a href="/wiki/Ambrose" title="Ambrose">Ambrose</a> in his writings (II, 1432) claimed that there were twelve springs at 'Ennon'. On the north side of this area is Tell Shalem, which undoubtedly must be Salim/Salumnias (map ref. 2098-1998), and so the place where John baptised at Aenon may have been at any of the springs in the vicinity of Tell Shalem."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ICCS-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ICCS_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bernard (2000) [1928], p. 128.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenon&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Public Domain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/12px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/18px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/24px-PD-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="196" /></span></span> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFEaston1897" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Matthew_George_Easton" title="Matthew George Easton">Easton, Matthew George</a> (1897). 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