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mid´in (מדּין, middı̄n; in GB, ΑἰνωÌν, AinoÌ„Ìn, “springsâ€): One of the six cities in the wilderness of Judah (). 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 AinoÌ„n, “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. KumraÌ‚m remains of buildings and a rock-cut aqueduct. See PEF, III, 210, 212, Sh XVIII.