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# מְעוּנִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4586

**Mehunim(-s)** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Mehunim(-s) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4586/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** 1 Ch 4:41 Kt v. מְעוּנִים.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Meunites (2); of Meunim (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:50](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.50/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.50/#tree)

בְּנֵי־אַסְנָ֥ה בְנֵי־מְעוּנִ֖ים בְּנֵ֥י נְפוּסִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Asnah the.descendants of.Meunim the.descendants of.Nephussim

*JPS 1917:* the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephusim;

[Nehemiah 7:52](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.52/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.52/#tree)

בְּנֵי־בֵסַ֥י בְּנֵי־מְעוּנִ֖ים בְּנֵ֥י נְפִֽישְׁסִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Besai the.descendants of.Meunim the.descendants of.Nephissim

*JPS 1917:* the children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4586.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4586/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).