Zaanaim: Wanderings; the unloading of tents, so called probably from the fact
of nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and villages of that
region, a place in the north-west of Lake Merom, near Kedesh, in
Naphtali. Here Sisera was slain by Jael, "the wife of Heber the
Kenite," who had pitched his tent in the "plain [R.V., 'as far as the
oak'] of Zaanaim"
(Judges 4:11) It has been, however, suggested by some
that, following the LXX. and the Talmud, the letter b, which in
Hebrew means "in," should be taken as a part of the word following,
and the phrase would then be "unto the oak of Bitzanaim," a place
which has been identified with the ruins of Bessum, about half-way
between Tiberias and Mount Tabor.
