Dictionaries :: Middin

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Middin:

measures, one of the six cities "in the wilderness," on the west of the Dead Sea, mentioned along with En-gedi (Jos 15:61).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Middin:

judgment; striving

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Middin:

mid'-in (middin; in GB, Ainon, "springs"): One of the six cities in the wilderness of Judah (Jos 15:61). There are not many possible sites. The Hebrew name may possibly survive in Khirbet Mird, a very conspicuous site with many ancient cisterns overlooking the plateau el Bukea‘, above which it towers to a height of 1,000 ft.; it is the Mons Mardes of early Christian pilgrims; the existing remains are Byzantine. It is a site of great natural strength and was clearly once a place of some importance. The Greek reading Ainon, "place of springs," suggests the neighborhood of the extensive oasis of ‘Ain Feshkhah at the northwest corner of the Dead Sea where there are at Kh. Kumram remains of buildings and a rock-cut aqueduct. See PEF, III, 210, 212, Sh XVIII.

Written by E. W. G. Masterman

Nave's Topical Bible

Middin: A City of the Tribe of Judah

Jos 15:61

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Middin:

(measures) a city of Judah (Joshua 15:61) one of the six specified as situated in the district of "the midbar" (Authorized Version "wilderness".)