Ithnan

Ithnan ("strong") was a southern Negev town in Judah's tribal inheritance named in Joshua 15:23 in the catalog of cities "in the south country, by the coast of Edom": "And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan." Some Hebrew manuscripts and translations read "Hazor-ithnan" as a single compound name. The town appears only in this single boundary list and is uncertain in location. It lay in the desert margin between settled Judah and the Edomite-Amalekite wilderness, in the cluster of small Negev frontier settlements that filled the southern reach of Judean territory.