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EN-DOR

(Heb. ʿēn dôr, ʿên dôr, ʿên dōʾr)

A town in northwestern Manasseh (Josh. 17:11), in the area of the Esdraelon Plain. Since the spelling varies in Hebrew, the meaning of the name is not certain. It may be connected either with a spring (Heb. dwr) or with the Dorians, a Greek tribal group. En-dor is the town where Barak’s forces triumphed over Sisera (Ps. 83:10[MT 11]; cf. Judg. 4–5). Here lived a witch whom Saul visited on the eve of his final battle in order to gain help from the dead prophet Samuel. Perhaps, depending on exactly where one locates En-dor, Saul needed to travel behind enemy lines in order to visit the medium, hence his disguise. The name may be preserved in modern Indur, but the preferred location is Khirbet e-Òafâfeh/µorvat Zafzafot (187227).

Bibliography. J. P. Brown, “The Mediterranean Seer and Shamanism,” ZAW 93 (1981): 374-400; N. Zori, “New Light on Endor,” PEQ 84 (1952): 114-17.

Samuel Lamerson







Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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