Of the hind it is unnecessary to say more than that she is the female of the stag, or hart, and that in the manners of these animals the males always are the last to hurry into cover.*—C. H. S.
• AIN (p, usually En in the English version), the Hebrew word for a fountain-spring [as guished from Beer, an artificial tank or well], which signification it also bears in Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic. It chiefly attracts notice as combined with the proper names of various places ; and in all such cases it points to some remarkable or portant fountain near or at the spot. Thus, 4-raiv, fountain of kids' [EN-GED1]; En-gannim (Josh. xv. 34), fountain of the gar dens ;' En-dor, house-fountain' (foes habz?ationis, Gesenius) [EN-Dort] ; rirrp, En haddah (Josh. xix. 21), sharp,' i. e. swift foun tain ;' LDV..M73.7, Ex-nzishpat (Gen. xiv. 7), foun tain of judgment ;' there also called :VII), but pro leptically, as that name appears to have originated at, a later period (Num. xx. 14), [KADEsx] ; Ezz-eglainz, two calves' (Ezek. xlvii. to) [EN-EGLAIM]; urp, En-she
mesh (Josh. xv. 7), fountain of the sun ;' En-rogel (2 Sam. xvii. 17, etc.), literally fountain of the foot,' which is construed in the Targum fuller's fountain,' because the fullers there trod the cloths with their feet ; others, fountain of the spy' [EN-RoGEL]. There are other names with which is thus used in composition ; but these are the most important. In one case occurs with the article as the name of a place in the north east of Palestine (Num. xxxiv. II), where it is named to point out more clearly the position of Riblah, one of the northern border cities. [The reference here is probably to some spring by its relation to which Riblah is pointed out :—Riblah on the east side of the spring. There was, how ever, a city called Ain on the uttermost border of Judah to the south (Josh. xv. 32), which was after wards assigned to Simeon (Josh. xix. 7; 1 Chr. iv. 32.]* It occurs in the plural in John hi. 23, as iEnon or fountains.