Word Summary
Nain: Nain, a village of Galilee
Original Word: ΝαΐνTransliteration: Nain
Phonetic Spelling: (nah-in')
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Short Definition: Nain, a village of Galilee
Meaning: Nain -- a village of Galilee
Strong's Concordance
Nain.
Probably of Hebrew origin (compare na'ah); Nain, a place in Palestine -- Nain.
see HEBREW na'ah
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3484: ΝαΐνΝαΐν (
WH Ναΐν (cf. Iota) (
נָאִין, a pasture; cf. Simonis, Onomast. N. T., p. 115),
ἡ,
Nain, a town of Galilee, situated at the northern base of Little Hermon; modern Nein, a petty village inhabited by a very few families, and not to be confounded with a village of the same name beyond the Jordan (
Josephus,
b. j. 4, 9, 4):
Luke 7:11. (Cf. Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, i. 552f.)