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Miamin

What Bible dictionaries say about “Miamin”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Miamin - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

=Mijamin, from the right hand. (1.) The head of one of the divisions of the priests (1 Chr. 24:9).

(2.) A chief priest who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Neh. 12:5), called Mijamin (10:7) and Miniamin (12:17).

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

mi'-a-min.

See MIJAMIN; MINIAMIN.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(from the right hand).
  1. A layman of Israel who had married a foreign wife and put her away at the bidding of Ezra. (Ezra 10:25)
  2. A priest or family of priests who went up from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 12:5)

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith