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  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  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"  (Judg.  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. 
 

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