Punon (ISBE)

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pū´non ( פּוּנן , pūnōn ): A desert camp of the Israelites, the second after leaving Mt. Hor ( Numbers 33:42 , Numbers 33:43 ). Eusebius (Onom 299 85; 123 9) mentions an Idumean village, North of Petra, in the desert, where convicts were mining copper, called Phinon or Phainon. These are doubtless identical. See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL .