Nain

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Nain
     (from Heb. nain, "green pastures," "lovely"), the name of a town
     near the gate of which Jesus raised to life a widow's son (Luke
     7:11-17). It is identified with the village called Nein,
     standing on the north-western slope of Jebel ed-Duhy (=the "hill
     Moreh" = "Little hermon"), about 4 miles from Tabor and 25


     southwest of Capernaum. At the foot of the slope on which it
     stands is the great plain of Esdraelon.
     
       This was the first miracle of raising the dead our Lord had
     wrought, and it excited great awe and astonishment among the
     people.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Nain, beauty; pleasantness