Mehunim
Mehunim is mentioned in 2 verses of the Bible, first in Ezra 2:50. Also called Meunim.
Who was Mehunim?
Habitations, (2 Chr. 26:7; R.V. “Meunim,” Vulg. Ammonitae), a people against whom Uzziah waged a successful war. This word is in Hebrew the plural of Ma’on, and thus denotes the Maonites who inhabited the country on the eastern side of the Wady el-Arabah. They are again mentioned in 1 Chr. 4:41 (R.V.), in the reign of King Hezekiah, as a Hamite people, settled in the eastern end of the valley of Gedor, in the wilderness south of Palestine. In this passage the Authorized Version has “habitation,” erroneously following the translation of Luther.
They are mentioned in the list of those from whom the Nethinim were made up (Ezra 2:50; Neh. 7:52).
Biography adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain, linked via Theographic Bible Metadata.
Key verses about Mehunim
- Ezra 2:50
The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,
- Nehemiah 7:52
The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim,