Zaanaim

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Zaanaim
     wanderings; the unloading of tents, so called probably from the
     fact of nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and villages
     of that region, a place in the north-west of Lake Merom, near
     Kedesh, in Naphtali. Here Sisera was slain by Jael, "the wife of
     Heber the Kenite," who had pitched his tent in the "plain [R.V.,


     'as far as the oak'] of Zaanaim" (Judg. 4:11).
     
       It has been, however, suggested by some that, following the
     LXX. and the Talmud, the letter b, which in Hebrew means "in,"
     should be taken as a part of the word following, and the phrase
     would then be "unto the oak of Bitzanaim," a place which has
     been identified with the ruins of Bessum, about half-way between
     Tiberias and Mount Tabor.