Endor

ENDOR(Ἀενδώρ, LXX.; Ἔνδωρον, Ἡνδώρ, Ἀηνδώρ, Euseb.), a village in Palestine, infamous in the closing scenes of the life of Saul for his consultation of the sorceress, on the eve of the battle of Gilboa. (1 Sam. 28.7, &c.) It is reckoned to the half tribe of Manasseh, on this side Jordan ( Josh. 19.11), and is placed by Eusebius and St. Jerome ( Onomast. s. v. ) at the distance of four miles to the south of Mount Tabor. It was a large village in their time, and still exists under the same name, on the northern declivity of Little Hermon, and near to Nain,--another mark of identification furnished by Eusebius. (Robinson, Bib. Res. vol. 3. p. 225.)