Editing Horonaim

{{Short description|Moabite city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible}}
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'''Horonaim''' ({{langx|he|{{Script/Hebrew|חוֹרֹנַיִם}}}} ''Ḥōrōnayīm'')<ref>{{Strong-number|חֹרֹנַיִם|H|2773}}</ref> is a city in [[Moab]], mentioned in two [[Hebrew Bible]] oracles against the nation of Moab: in the [[Book of Jeremiah]] ({{bibleverse-nb||jer|48}}), and in the [[Book of Isaiah]], ({{bibleverse-nb||isa|15}}). In [[2 Samuel]] ({{bibleverse-nb|2|sam|13:34}}), an addition from  the [[Septuagint]] text ({{lang|grc|ὁδοῦ τῆς ῾Ωρωνῆν}}) is sometimes translated as Horonaim (in e.g. [[NIV]], [[International Standard Version|ISV]]), although it possibly derives from as little as a preposition.<ref name="4QSam-a brill">{{Cite book| publisher = Brill| isbn = 9004123709| last = Fincke| first = Andrew| title = The Samuel scroll from Qumran : 4qSam<sup>a</sup> restored and compared to the Septuagint and 4Sam<sup>c</sup> | location = Leiden| date = 2001| at = p. 215}}</ref>

There is some reason to identify Horonaim with the city Horonan ([[Moabite language|Moabite]]: 𐤇𐤅𐤓𐤍𐤍 *''Ḥawrānān''),<ref name= Garr2004>{{cite book |last= Garr |first= W. Randall |date= 2004 |title= Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 B.C.E. |publisher= Eisenbrauns |pages= 37– |isbn= 978-1-57506-091-0 |oclc= 1025228731 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=02DaEkaJizMC&pg=PA37}}</ref> named in the [[Mesha Stele]] (lines 31 and 32).<ref name= cos>{{Cite book |editor1-last= Hallo |editor1-first= William W. |editor2-last= Younger |editor2-first = K. Lawson |title= The Context of Scripture: Canonical compositions, monumental inscriptions and archival documents from the biblical world |at= p. 138, note ''g'' |publisher= BRILL |year= 2003 |volume= II |isbn= 1423714490}}</ref> The name may derive from the god [[Haurun|Horon]],<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia | publisher = Eerdmans | isbn = 9780802824912 | last1 =  van der Toorn |first1 = Karel |first2= Bob |last2= Becking |first3= Pieter |last3= Willem van der Horst| title = Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible| date = 1999 | contribution= Horon |page= 425 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yCkRz5pfxz0C&pg=PA425 }}</ref> or from Western Semitic words for cave, cavern, hollow or valley.<ref>{{Cite EBD |title= Horonaim}}; and ''Strong's Hebrew'', both in [http://biblehub.com/topical/h/horonaim.htm].</ref>

==See also==
*[[Isaiah 15]]

==References==
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[[Category:Hebrew Bible cities]]
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