Middin

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Joshua 15:61

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

One of the six cities of Judah in the "wilderness" (midbar; Joshua 15:61, including the waste on the upper level, the cliffs, and shore of the lake). Um el Bedun valley, S.W. of the Dead Sea, bears traces of the name. Conder (Palestine Exploration, July 1875) identifies it with Khirbet Mird, one of the six cities of the midbar or "desert", on the edge of the Bukeia, E. of Mar Saba.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Joshua 15:61

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

MIDDIN. A town in the wilderness of Judah ( Joshua 15:61 ). The site has not been recovered.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City in the wilderness of Judah. Joshua 15:61 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

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

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

mid´in ( מדּין , middı̄n  ; in Gb , Αἰνών , Ainṓn , "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 Ainōn , "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 . Kumrâm remains of buildings and a rock-cut aqueduct. See PEF , III, 210, 212, Sh Xviii .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Middin', מַדַּין , distaznce; Sept. Μαδδίν v.r. Μαδών), a town in the desert of Judah, mentioned between Beth-arabah and Secacah (Joshua 15:61); and probably situated not far from the Dead Sea, about opposite its middle, or possibly at the ruins near a well marked on Van de Velde's Map as Khan Mardeh, near the north end of the Dead Sea. "By Van de Velde (Memoir, page 256, and Map) mention is made of a valley on the south-western side of the Dead Sea, below Masada, called Urn el- Bedun, which may contain a trace of the ancient name."