Minaeans
Minaeans
MINANS.The name of a S.W. Arabian people dwelling north of the Sabans (Sheba), who in the 9th and 8th cents. b.c. became a powerful nation with a dominion stretching north to the peninsula of Sinai. It is supposed by recent scholars that they are meant by the Meunim or (better) Meinim, who are named in 1Ch 4:41 as dwelling in the Negeb, in 2Ch 26:7 along with Arabians, and in 2Ch 20:1 (by correction) along with the Ammonites. In all these passages the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] understand Minans.
J. F. MCurdy.