Mehunims

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Mehunims
     habitations, (2 Chr. 26:7; R.V. "Meunim," Vulg. Ammonitae), a
     people against whom Uzziah waged a successful war. This word is
     in Hebrew the plural of Ma'on, and thus denotes the Maonites who
     inhabited the country on the eastern side of the Wady el-Arabah.
     They are again mentioned in 1 Chr. 4:41 (R.V.), in the reign of


     King Hezekiah, as a Hamite people, settled in the eastern end of
     the valley of Gedor, in the wilderness south of Palestine. In
     this passage the Authorized Version has "habitation,"
     erroneously following the translation of Luther.
     
       They are mentioned in the list of those from whom the Nethinim
     were made up (Ezra 2:50; Neh. 7:52).