Dict: smith - ENGEDI OR ENGEDI

smith:

ENGEDI OR ENGEDI - E>@ - (fount of the kid), a town in the wilderness of Judah, kjv@Joshua:15:62) on the western shore of the Dead Sea. kjv@Ezekiel:47:10) Its original name was Hazezon-tamar, on account of the palm groves which surrounded it. ( kjv@2Chronicles:20:2) Its site is about the middle of the western shore of the lake, at the fountain of Ain Jidy , from which the place gets its name. It was immediately after an assault upon the "Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar," that the five Mesopotamian kings were attacked by the rulers of the plain of Sodom. kjv@Genesis:14:7) comp. kjv@2Chronicals:20:2 Saul was told that David was in the "wilderness of Engedi;" and he took "three thousand men, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats. " ( kjv@1Samuel:24:1-4) The vineyards of Engedi were celebrated by Solomon. (Solomon kjv@1:14)