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Zin, Wilderness of.


A district far south of Judah, lying between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Akaba, in which Kadesh was situated, and in which a great part of the wanderings of the Israelites occurred. Num. 13: 21; Num. 20: 1; Num. 27: 14; Num. 33: 36; Num. 34: 3, 4; Deut. 32: 51;

Joshua 15: 1, 3. It must not be confounded with the Wilderness of Sin (which lies along the south-east coast of the Red Sea).