Ein Gedi

Ein Gedi is a beautiful oasis in the Judean Desert that looks over the Dead Sea.  You can imagine that when David was running from Saul in the sparse desert, it would have been a very welcome spot with streams and waterfalls.  David 'dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi' (1Samuel 23v29).  You see holes in the rocks and can imagine the caves that he hid in and where he cut off the skirt of Saul's robe (1 Samuel 24).  


'Ein' means 'fountain' or 'spring', while 'gedi' means 'kid'.  This is very apt as there are indeed springs of water, and many rock-goats, or ibex. Also, appropriately, Ein Gedi is referred to in 1 Samuel 24v1-2 as 'the rocks of the wild goats'.

And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.  Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats. 

1 Samuel 24v1-2