Dictionary entry

Menuhah

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

men-u'-ha, men-u'-ka (menuchah, "place of rest"; the King James Version Menuchah): Rendered inJud 20:43the King James Version "with ease," the Revised Version (British and American) "at their resting-place." Both, however, have a marginal suggestion which would make the word a place-name, which would then more naturally read "from Nuhah over against Gibeah," thus describing the ground over which the slaughter of the Benjamites occurred. In1Ch 8:2the word "Nohah" occurs as that of a Benjamite elan. The place intended is perhapsMANAHATH(which see).