Atlas Maps Created using Biblemapper 3.0 Additional data from OpenBible.info Occurrences Joshua 15:61 In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,Encyclopedia MIDDINmid'-in (middin; in GB, Ainon, "springs"): One of the six cities in the wilderness of Judah (Joshua 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. Strong's Hebrew H4081: Middina city in the wilderness of Judah |