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Punon
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Punon: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
an encampment
precious stone; that beholds
precious stone; that beholds
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Punon (31° 29´, 35° 46´)
Hebrew
Strongs #06325: Nnwp Puwnon
Punon = "darkness"1) a station of Israel in their wilderness wanderings
6325 Puwnon poo-none'
from 6323; perplexity; Punon, a place in the Desert:-Punon.see HEBREW for 06323
Punon [NAVE]
PUNON, a city of Edom. A camping ground of the Israelites, in their forty years' wandering, Num. 33:42, 43.PUNON [SMITH]
(darkness) one of the halting-places of the Israelite host during the last portion of the wandering. (Numbers 33:42,43) By Eusebius and Jerome, it is identified with Phaeno, which contained the copper-mines so well known at that period, and was situated between Petra and Zoar.PUNON [ISBE]
PUNON - pu'-non (punon): A desert camp of the Israelites, the second after leaving Mt. Hor (Nu 33:42,43). Eusebius (Onom 299 85; 123 9) mentions an Idumean village, North of Petra, in the desert, where convicts were mining copper, called Phinon or Phainon. These are doubtless identical.See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL.