Bible Dictionaries
Nain

　　NAIN ( [Note: H Westcott and Hort’s text.] , etc.; Ναείμ 1 and 209, al pauc) is named only once in Scripture. St. Luke mentions it (Luke 7:11) as the ‘city’ to which the widow, whose dead son Jesus raised to life, belonged. The miracle was wrought near to the ‘gate,’ and in the presence of ‘much people.’ This Nain cannot be the same as the village on the E.Ναείν), Jerome (ib. s.v. ‘Naim’) says 2 miles. The situation of the present village is bleak and uninviting, though it commands a wide and interesting view. A few hundred paces above the huts, to the S.E. iii. 477; Stanley, SP [Note: Talmud.] 188; Sanday, Sacred Sites of the Gospels, 24, 101; Baedeker-Socin, Pal.