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MINNITH, or Mennith, a City beyond Jordan, situated four Miles from Heshbon, upon the Road to Philadelphia, as Eusebius relates1. It belong’d to the Ammonites, when Jephthah made War against them. Ezekiel says, that Judah carried Wheat of Minnith to the Fairs of Tyr. The Vulgate Judg. xi. 33. Ezek. xxvii. 17. Heb.expresses it Frumentum primum, the finest Wheat.
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