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The place on the Timnah road where Tamar sat veiled — and the site of one of the Bible's driest jokes. The Hebrew petach einayim is 'the entrance of Enaim,' a real town; but einayim is also the ordinary word for EYES, so the phrase reads simultaneously as 'the Opening of the Eyes.' She takes her seat at Eyes-Open, and the very next verse is 'he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law' (38:14-16). The KJV misses both, reading 'in an open place'; ASV and NIV recover the town. Its exact location is unknown — somewhere between Adullam and Timnah.

in the text Gen 38:14 Gen 38:21
📍 No fixed point plotted — the location is genuinely undetermined (see the note above), so this shows no guessed pin.
🗺️ No ancient-world overlay on the shelf yet for this site — a period map showing how the region actually looked in the biblical world gets added here as Mr. Librarian curates one, the same way the encyclopedia's film shelf grows.
▶ No films on the shelf yet — archaeology and geography videos get added here as Mr. Librarian finds good ones.