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Anim meaning

Anim in Biblical Hebrew
ענים
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🔼The name Anim: Summary

Meaning
Eyes, Fountains
Etymology
From the noun עין ('ayin), which means both eye and fountain.
Related names
• Via עין ('ayin): Aeneas, Aenon, Ain, Anath, Anem, Eliehoenai, Elienai, Elioenai, Enaim, Enam, Enan, En-dor, En-eglaim, En-gannim, En-gedi, En-haddah, En-hakkore, En-hazor, En-mishpat, En-rimmon, En-rogel, En-shemesh, En-tappuah, Hazar-enan

🔼The name Anim in the Bible

The name Anim occurs only once in the Bible. It belongs to a city in the hill country of Judah, that was assigned to this tribe at the completion of the invasion of Canaan (Joshua 15:50).

🔼Etymology of the name Anim

The name Anim is a contracted plural (or dual) of the noun ענן, meaning either fountain or eye:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
עין

The noun עין ('ayin) means both eye and fountain, well or spring. This might be explained by noting that the eye produces water in the form of tears, but perhaps more so in that water and light were considered deeply akin (see our article on the verb נהר, nahar, both meaning to shine and to flow). In that sense, the eye was considered a fountain that watered the outward face with water and the internal mind with light. Verb עין ('in) means to eye or regard. Noun מעין (ma'yan) describes a place with a spring.

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🔼Anim meaning

For a meaning of the name Anim, NOBSE Study Bible Name List recognizes a plural form and reads Springs. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names sees a dual and reads Two Fountains. BDB Theological Dictionary does not translate this name but does list it under the root עין.