Strong's #5871: `Ayin (pronounced ah'-yin)

the same as 5869; fountain; Ajin, the name (thus simply) of two places in Palestine:--Ain.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ayin

Ain = "spring"

1) one of the landmarks on the eastern boundary of Palestine

2) one of the southernmost cities of Judah in the Nekeb and allotted to the tribe of Simeon and given to the priests

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: the same as H5869

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Numbers 34:11: "from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend,"
Joshua 15:32: "And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine,"
Joshua 19:7: " Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:"
Joshua 21:16: " And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh"
1 Chronicles 4:32: "And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:"