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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 eṣ-Òafṣâfeh/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

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EN-DOR

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)