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Meonenim

means properly “soothsayers” or “sorcerers,” “wizards” (Deuteronomy 18:10, 14; 2 Kings 21:6; Micah 5:12)

Judges 9:37…
King James Version: “the plain of Meonenim”
Revised King James Version: “the oak of Meonenim”
NASB: “the diviner’s oak”

This may be the oak at Shechem under which Abram pitched his tent (see SHECHEM), the “enchanter's oak,” so called, perhaps, from Jacob’s hiding the “strange gods” under it (Genesis 35:4).

More information

• Oaks in the Bible
• Divination
• Soothsayers
• Enchantments
• Sorcerers
• Wizards
• About idolatry and false gods in the Bible
• About idols in the Bible
• What is the Occult?
• The Occult—What does the Bible say about it?