HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4511
מִנִּית
min.nit — Minnith
§ Minnith = "distribution" a place east of the Jordan in Ammonite territory
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Minnith
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Distribution, an Ammonitish town (Judg. 11:33) from which wheat was exported to Tyre (Ezek. 27:17). It was probably somewhere in the Mishor or table-land on the east of Jordan. There is a gentle valley running for about 4 miles east of Dhiban called Kurm Dhiban, “the vineyards of Dibon.” Tristram supposes that this may be the “vineyards” mentioned in Judg. (l.c.).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.