EN-GANNIM Sept. Alex. 'lltryaP vl,a), a town of Palestine, allotted to the tribe of Issachar, and situated in the plain of Esdraelon (Josh. xix. 21). It was assigned out of that tribe to the Levites (xxi. 29). The same town appears to be called Anew (t1J3,/) in I Chron. vi. 73. There can be little doubt that this is the Ginaa which Josephus speaks of as situated in the great plain on the confines of Samaria (Ant. xx. 6. 1 ; Bell. 7utl. iii. 3. 4). We can have no difficulty in identifying it with the modern town of Jenin. Jenin stands at the mouth of a picturesque glen which winds down into Esdraelon from the wooded hills of Ephraim. The town is high enough to overlook the broad plain, and low enough to have its houses encircled by its verdure. The hills rise steeply behind, dotted with bushes, and here and there clothed with the sombre foliage of the olive. Rich gardens, hedged with prickly pear, extend along their base ; and a few palm trees give variety to the scene. The 'fountain,' from which the town took the first part of its Scripture name (En, p), is in the hills a few hundred yards distant ; and its abundant waters flow over and fertilize the gar dens' (Gannizn) from which the second and chiefpart of the name is derived. The leading road from
Jezreel and the north to Samaria and Jerusalem passes Jenin. This may illustrate the passage in 2 Kings ix. 27, where it is stated that Ahaziah, king of Judah, in escaping from Jehu at Jezreel, fled by the way of the garden-house ;' that is, Beth-Haggan, as it is rightly rendered in the Sept.
ITZ), which appears to be just another name for En-gannim. He was thus taking the straight road to Jerusalem (Stanley, S. and P. 342). Jenin contains above 2000 inhabitants, and is the capital of a large district (Robinson, B. R. ii. 315; Hand book for S. and P. 351).
2. A town of Judah, situated in the plain of Philistia at the western base of the mountains, and not far from Zanoah and Jarmuth (Josh. xv. 34). Its site has not been identified.—J. L. P.