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1 Chronicles

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Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan, five cities;

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Verse part Definition: Part of speech: Strong's: Hebrew: Transliteration:
Their villages settled abode, settlement, village Noun H2691 וְחַצְרֵיהֶם֙ ve·chatz·rei·hem
[were] Etam, three places in Isr. Noun H5862 עֵיטָ֣ם ei·tam
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Ain, two places in Isr. Noun H5871 וָעַ֔יִן va·'a·yin,
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Rimmon, the name of several places in Isr. Noun H7417 רִמֹּ֥ון rim·mo·vn
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Tochen "measurement," a city in Simeon Noun H8507 וְתֹ֖כֶן ve·to·chen
and Ashan, a place in Judah and later in Simeon Noun H6228 וְעָשָׁ֑ן ve·'a·shan;
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five five Noun H2568 חָמֵֽשׁ׃ cha·mesh.
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Five: Incompletion or lacking

For a person to understand the meaning of the number “five”, one must first realize that the meaning of the number ten is completion or wholeness. Since five is half of ten, the idea is that the number five represents incompletion or that which is lacking. A Scripture that expresses this idea is found in the book of John. At a place called Beit Chesed (Bethesda), there was a pool whose waters healed the sick. The reader is told that around the pool there were five porches. It is stated that on these five porches laid individuals who were not whole. Some were paralyzed and the rest of them had a variety of health problems. It is not a chance happening that these people who were lacking their health were on five porches. Another well-known passage that contains the number five is found in I Samuel 17. In the account of David and Goliath, David picks up five stones (see I Samuel 17:40). Why is the reader told the specific number and not simply that David had gathered a few stones? The answer is to assist the reader in understanding that the stone, which David hurled at Goliath, was not the source of victory. Rather, this was only the means that God used to accomplish His victory. In other words, the stone and even David, who hurled this stone at Goliath, were insufficient to bring about this victory.

One of the first places where the idea of "lacking" or "incompleteness" is seen regarding the number five is in the book of Genesis. In chapter 18, two angels are sent to Sodom to destroy the city. God tells Abraham that if 50 righteous people are found in the city, then the city will be free of this punishment (We will learn that the number 50 is related to freedom when this number is studied). This is revealed to Abraham and he responds saying, perhaps the city will lack 50 righteous people by five. It is significant that Abraham uses the number five when referring to the city lacking enough righteous people. 

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cities; city, town Noun H5892 עָרִ֖ים a·rim

Locations

Ain

AIN (2)a'-in (`ayin, "eye or spring (of water)"):(1) A town in the extreme Northwest corner of Canaan, so named, most probably, from a noted spring in the vicinity (Numbers 34:11). Thomson and after him Robinson make Ain the same as `Ain el-`Asy, the chief source of the Orontes, some fifteen miles Southwest of Riblah, which, in turn, is about twenty miles So... View Details

Ashan

ASHANa'-shan (`ashan): An unknown site in the domain of Judah (Joshua 15:42), possessed by Simeon (Joshua 19:7), and mentioned among the priests' cities in 1 Chronicles 6:59. (44) = Joshua 21:16 (`ayin is a corruption of `ashan). Chorashan (or Borashan), which was probably the site of some reservoir in the Southwest part of Judah (1 Samuel 30:30), is the sam... View Details

Etam

ETAMe'-tam `eTam; Codex Alexandrinus, Apan, Codex Vaticanus, Aitan:(1) Mentioned in Septuagint along with Tekoa, Bethlehem and Phagor (Joshua 15:59). In 2 Chronicles 11:6 it occurs, between Bethlehem and Tekoa, as one of the cities built "for defense in Judah" by Rehoboam. Josephus writes that "there was a certain place, about 50 furlongs distant from Jerusa... View Details

Rimmon

RIMMON (1)rim'-on:(1) The rock Rimmon (cela` rimmon; he petra Rhemmon): The place of refuge of the 600 surviving Benjamites of Gibeah (Jeba`) who "turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months" (Judges 20:45, 47; Judges 21:13). Robinson's identification (RB, I, 440) has been very generally accepted... View Details

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New American Standard Bible 1995 Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan, five cities;
King James Bible Their And their villages were were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;cities:
Hebrew Greek English Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan, five cities;