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Strong's #4586 - מּעִינִי

Transliteration
Mᵉʻûwnîy
Phonetics
meh-oo-nee', meh-ee-nee'
Root Word (Etymology)
probably patrial from (H4584)
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Masculine
TWOT
None
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Mehunim or Meunim = “habitations”

1) a people who lived south of Canaan

2) a group of returning exiles, perhaps descendants of 1

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (3)
2 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 1
NAS (5)
1 Chronicles 1
2 Chronicles 2
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 1
HCS (4)
1 Chronicles 1
2 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 1
BSB (4)
1 Chronicles 1
2 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 1
ESV (5)
1 Chronicles 1
2 Chronicles 2
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 1
WEB (3)
2 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 מְעוּנִים proper name, of a people Me`unim, Me`unites (usually connected with מָעוֺן, (see עון), but dubious, compare Buhl Edom. 41f.); — a people South (SE ?) of Canaan (compare Buhl l.c.); — ׳הַמּ 2 Chronicles 26:7,1Chronicles 4:41 Qr (Kt המעינים, ᵐ5 B τοὺς Μιναίους, ᵐ5 L τ. Κιναίους; read also מֵהַמְּעוּנִים 2 Chronicles 20:1 (for ᵑ0מֵהָעַמּוֺנִים), so ᵐ5 B A (ᵐ5 L 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. 450f. 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.


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List of Word Forms
הַמְּעוּנִ֨ים המעונים וְהַמְּעוּנִֽים׃ והמעונים׃ מְעוּנִ֖ים מעונים ham·mə·‘ū·nîm hammə‘ūnîm hammeuNim mə‘ūnîm mə·‘ū·nîm meuNim vehammeuNim wə·ham·mə·‘ū·nîm wəhammə‘ūnîm
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