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Minnith

Meaning: distribution

The “wheat of Minnith” is mentioned in Ezekiel 27:17. Minnith was an ancient Ammonite town from which wheat was exported to Tyre (Judges 11:33).

It was probably somewhere in the farmlands east of the Jordan River in what is now the nation of Jordan, perhaps around modern Dhiban, Jordan.

There is a gentle valley running for about 4 miles east of Dhiban called Kurm Dhiban, “the vineyards of Dibon.” Dr. Henry Baker Tristram suggested that this may be the “vineyards” mentioned in the book of Judges. 1

1. Henry Baker Tristram, The Natural History of the Bible (London: 1867).

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• AGRICULTURE in the Bible