H4586: מְעוּנִי
Mᵉʻûwnîy · pronounced meh-oo-nee' · “Meunite”
Definition
a Meunite, or inhabitant of Maon (only in plural)
KJV translates it as: Mehunim(-s), Meunim.
Word origin: or מְעִינִי; probably patrial from H4584 (מָעוֹן);
Extended definition
Also named: am.mo.ni (עַמּוֹנִי "Meunite" H5984)
§ Mehunim or Meunim = "habitations"
1) a people who lived south of Canaan
2) a group of returning exiles, perhaps descendants of 1
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4586 is translated
- meunites ×2
- meunim ×2
Bible verses with H4586 (Mᵉʻûwnîy)
Mᵉʻûwnîy appears in 4 verses.
- 1 Chronicles 4:41
And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
- 2 Chronicles 26:7
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur–baal, and the Mehunims.
- 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,