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ZAANA'IM (removals), THE PLAIN OF, more accurately "the oak of," where Heber the Kenite pitched his tent. Jud 4:11. This has been identified with a plain some 2 or 8 miles north-west of the Waters of Merom (Lake Huleh), in the line of the hills which form the western boundary of the Jordan valley. The plain is about 2 miles long and 1 mile wide, and completely surrounded by hills. The hills are well wooded and have many "oaks." In the middle of the western side of this plain is the site of Kedesh-naphtali, or Kedesh. Conder says that Kedesh-naphtali is 30 miles from Tabor, over a difficult country. He suggests another Kedesh, and the identification of Zaanaim with Bessum, east of Tabor. See Zaananxim.