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Mehunim

Ancestral head of a Nethinim (temple servant) family listed among those returning from Babylonian exile in Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7.

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Mehunim (or Meunim) appears in Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 as the head of a family of — temple servants — whose descendants returned from exile with . The Nethinim were a class of hereditary temple workers. The name Mehunim may relate to the Meunites, a people mentioned elsewhere in 2 Chronicles as adversaries of , but the biblical text here presents Mehunim simply as the founding ancestor of a returned temple-servant family, with no individual narrative recorded.

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