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Zem-Zem

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A sacred well in Mecca, and all built round along with the Caaba (q. v .); has its name from the bubbling sound of the waters; the Moslems think it the Well which Hagar found with her little Ishmael in the wilderness when he was dying of thirst.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Zem-Zem'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​z/zem-zem.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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