(house of the sun)

1. One of the towns which marked the north boundary of Judah (Joshua 15:10). It is now ‘Ainshems, about two miles from the great Philistine plain, and seven from Ekron.
2. A city on the border of Issachar (Joshua 19:22)
3. One of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (Joshua 19:38; Judges 1:33)
4. An idolatrous temple, or place in Egypt (Jeremiah 43:13). In the middle ages Heliopolis was still called by the Arabs Ain Shems.