King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4586
Transliteration: Meunim or Meinim
Phonetic Spelling: (meh-oo-nee')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: a people Southeast of the Dead Sea
Meaning: Meunites -- a people Southeast of the Dead Sea
Word Summary
Meunim or Meinim: a people Southeast of the Dead Sea
Original Word: מְעוּנָיTransliteration: Meunim or Meinim
Phonetic Spelling: (meh-oo-nee')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: a people Southeast of the Dead Sea
Meaning: Meunites -- a people Southeast of the Dead Sea
Strong's Concordance
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
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4586. Meunim
or Meinim מְעוּנִים proper name, of a people Me`unim, Me`unites (usually connected with מָעוֺן, (see עון), but dubious, compare BuhlEdom. 41 f.); — a people South (SE ?) of Canaan (compare Buhll.c.); — ׳הַמּ2 Chronicles 26:7 and 1 Chronicles 4:41 Qr (Kt ᵐ5 המעינים,B τοὺς Μιναίους, ᵐ5L τ. Κιναίους; read also מֵהַמְּעוּנִים2 Chronicles 20:1 (for מֵהָעַמּוֺנִים ᵑ0), 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 (GlaserSkizze ii. 450 f. and others) see SprengerZMG xliv (1890), 505.
[מָעוּף] see עיף. מָעוֺר see עור.
מעז (√ of following).
מעינים 1 Chronicles 4:41 Kt see מְעוּנִים.