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מִנִּית

Minnith

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Minnith’ fuller range ↓

H4511 Strong's Hebrew
Minnîyth Transliteration
/min-neeth'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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About this entry

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“Minnith” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name מנית (Minnîyth). A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Judges, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is Judges 11:33. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Minnith
Modern gloss
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Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H4511 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
Judges 11:33
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Judges 11:33.
Ezekiel 27:17
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Ezekiel 27:17.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 50%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 1 · 50%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Minnith 2×
  • American Standard Version: Minnith 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Minnith 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Minnith 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H4511 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Minnith” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H4511 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Minnith” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H4511 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Minnith” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H4511 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Minnith” 2×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Minnith = "distribution"
  2. a place east of the Jordan in Ammonite territory; site unknown

Word origin

n.pr.loc. in Ammonite territory, site unknown (4 Rom. m. from Heshbon Euseb.Onom. 253, 33; cf. BuhlGeogr. 266);—Ju 11:33 (𝔊 ἄχρις Ἀρνών, A εἰς Σεμωειθ, 𝔊L Σεμενειθ); חִטֵּי מ׳ Ez 27:17 wheat of Minnîth (cf. wheat from Ammon 2 Ch 27:5) so Berthol, but dub.; Co conj. הִטִּים וּנְכֹאת wheat and storax.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from מן (mên) (H4482) — string.

Part of speech: Proper Name Location


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

מִנִּית

  • (b. h.) pr. n. pl. Minnith, in Palestine. Lam. R. to III, 16 (play on בחטי מ׳, Ez. XXVII, 17) חטי דלא מניין wheat dishes without number; ib. כמנין מ׳ as many as the numerical value of מנית (500); Koh. R. to I, 8 (corr. acc.). e.g. Ezekiel 27:17

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H4511 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
מִ֠נִּית Noun, Proper Ezekiel 27:17 1
מִנִּ֜ית Noun, Proper Judges 11:33 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4511, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

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Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Minnith). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

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.).

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(distribution), a place on the east of the Jordan, named as the point to which Jephthah's slaughter of the Ammonites extended. (Judges 11:33) The "wheat of Minnith" is mentioned in (Ezekiel 27:17) as being supplied by Judah and Israel to Tyre; but there is nothing to indicate that the same place is intended, and indeed the word is believed by some not to be a proper name.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

same as Minni

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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