Iim

Iim (meaning ruins) refers to two distinct locations in the Old Testament. (1.) A city in the far south of Judah listed in Joshua 15:29 among the towns of the Negev tribal allotment. Its exact site is uncertain, though it lay in the arid southern borderlands of the tribe. (2.) A wilderness encampment of Israel during the Exodus journey, mentioned in Numbers 33:45 under the fuller name Ije-abarim (Ruins of Abarim) — the form used at that stage of the itinerary — though some manuscripts treat Iim and Ije-abarim as separate stations.

The name reflects the landscape of ruins or heaps that characterized certain sites in the Negev and the Trans-jordanian wilderness. Beyond the brief topographical mentions in these boundary and itinerary lists, neither location receives further narrative attention in the biblical text.