HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4088
מַדְמֵנָה
mad.me.nah — Madmenah
§ Madmenah = "dunghill" one of the Benjamite villages north of Jerusalem
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Madmenah
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Ibid., a town in Benjamin, not far from Jerusalem, towards the north (Isa. 10:31). The same Hebrew word occurs in Isa. 25:10, where it is rendered “dunghill.” This verse has, however, been interpreted as meaning “that Moab will be trodden down by Jehovah as teben [broken straw] is trodden to fragments on the threshing-floors of Madmenah.”
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.