MINNITH mĭn’ ĭth (Heb. מִנִּ֜ית), one of the “twenty cities” of the Ammonites which Jephthah conquered (Judg 11:33). The precise location is unknown. According to the description of Jephthah’s campaign, which took him “from Aroer (or Nahr Amman, v. 26) to the neighborhood of (lit. ‘till you come to’) Minnith,” this city must have been the easternmost limit of his victories. In his Onomastica (140:3; ed. Lagarde) Eusebius identified it with a place called Manith, four m. from Heshbon on the road to Philadelphia (i.e., Ammān or Rabbah of the Ammonites). It is identified with Khirbet umm el-Hanafish, halfway between Heshbon and el-Yadudeh, or with Khirbet-Hamzeh four m. NE of Heshbon. Ezekiel 27:17 mentions the “wheat of Minnith,” stressing its exceptional quality (cf. 2 Chron 27:5). There is no reason to delete this reference as is done in the RSV.

Bibliography D. Baly, The Geography of the Bible (1957).