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Meonenim, The Plain Of

MEON'ENIM, THE PLAIN OF (oak of soothsayers), an oak or terebinth, Jud 9:37; comp. Deut 18:10, 2 Kgs 22:14; Mic 5:12, "soothsayers." The meaning of the name seems to connect it with some old diviners…

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

MEON'ENIM, THE PLAIN OF (oak of soothsayers), an oak or terebinth, Jud 9:37; comp. " The meaning of the name seems to connect it with some old diviners, probably of the pagan inhabitants. Conder suggests its identity with the plain of Mukhiah.

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