Where John was baptising in John 3:23, 'because there was much water there' — a detail the Gospel bothers to explain, which suggests the place was obscure even to its first readers. The name is Aramaic for 'springs'. ⚠ The location is genuinely unknown: candidates include a cluster of springs in the Jordan valley south of Beth-shan, and a Salim east of Nablus. Coordinates take the Beth-shan area and are marked approximate; this is a guess with a pedigree, not an identification.