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Nain

NA'IN (na'in; "pleasantness, beauty").

The city at the gate of which Jesus raised the widow's son to life (Lk 7:11-15).

Robinson found a hamlet named Nein, six miles SW of Nazareth, standing on a bleak, rocky slope of the northern descending slope of Jebel ed-Duhy (the "hill of Moreh" of Scripture) in the Valley of Jezreel. In this locality Eusebius and Jerome place the city of Nain.