Lexical Definition

‎מְעוּנִי‎ Mᵉʻûwnîy (meh-oo-nee') Meunite ^N:N--LG
or מְעִינִי Mᵉʻîynîy (meh-eenee'); probably patrial from ‎מָעוֹן‎

Mehunim(-s), Meunim.

• § Mehunim or Meunim = "habitations"
• a Meunite, or inhabitant of Maon (only in plural)

1) a people who lived south of Canaan
2) a group of returning exiles, perhaps descendants of 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎מְעוּנִים‎ proper name, of a people Me`unim, Me`unites (usually connected with ‎מָעוֺן‎, (see ‎עון‎), but dubious, compare Buhl^{Edom. 41 f.}); — a people South (SE ?) of Canaan (compare Buhl^l.c.); — ‎׳‎‎הַמּ‎ 2Chr 26:7 and 1Chr 4:41 Qr (Kt ‎המעינים‎, ᵐ5^B τοὺς Μιναίους, ᵐ5^L τ. Κιναίους; read also ‎מֵהַמְּעוּנִים‎ 2Chr 20:1 (for ᵑ0 ‎מֵהָעַמּוֺנִים‎), so ᵐ5^{B A} (ᵐ5^L Αμμανιειμ), Ew Be Ke Ot Kau Kit; ‎בְּנֵימְֿעוּנִים‎ (among Nethinim who went back with Zerubbabel) Ezra 2:50 = Neh 7:52 are perhaps descendants of those named above (2Chr 26:7). ᵐ5 οἱ Μιναῖοι, but against ‎׳‎‎מ‎ = Mineans (Glaser^{Skizze ii. 450 f.} and others) see Sprenger^{ZMG xliv (1890), 505}. [‎מָעוּף‎] see ‎עיף‎. ‎מָעוֺר‎ see ‎עור‎.

‎מעינים‎ 1Chr 4:41 Kt see ‎מְעוּנִים‎.

Brown-Driver-Briggs References