◄ 4586. Meunim or Meinim ► |
Lexicon Meunim or Meinim: a people Southeast of the Dead Sea Original Word: מְעוּנִיםPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Meunim or Meinim Phonetic Spelling: (meh-oo-nee') Short Definition: Meunites NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona people S.E. of the Dead Sea NASB TranslationMeunim (2), Meunites (3).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מְעוּנִים proper name, of a people Me`unim, Me`unites (usually connected with מָעוֺן, (see עון), but dubious, compare Buhl Edom. 41 f.); — a people South (SE ?) of Canaan (compare Buhl l.c.); — ׳הַמּ2Chronicles 26:7 and 1 Chronicles 4:41 Qr (Kt המעינים, ᵐ5B τοὺς Μιναίους, ᵐ5L τ. Κιναίους; read also מֵהַמְּעוּנִים2Chronicles 20:1 (for ᵑ0 מֵהָעַמּוֺנִים), so ᵐ5B A ( ᵐ5L Αμμανιειμ), Ew Be Ke Ot Kau Kit; בְּנֵימְֿעוּנִים (among Nethinim who went back with Zerubbabel) Ezra 2:50 = Nehemiah 7:52 are perhaps descendants of those named above (2 Chronicles 26:7). ᵐ5 οἱ Μιναῖοι, but against ׳מ = Mineans (Glaser Skizze ii. 450 f. and others) see Sprenger ZMG xliv (1890), 505. [מָעוּף] see עיף. מָעוֺר see עור. מעז (√ of following). מעינים 1 Chronicles 4:41 Kt see מְעוּנִים. Strong's Mehunims, Meunim Or Msiyniy {meh-ee-nee'}; probably patrial from Ma'own; a Meunite, or inhabitant of Maon (only in plural) -- Mehunim(-s), Meunim. see HEBREW Ma'own |
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