Middin

Middin appears once in Scripture in Joshua's catalog of Judah's wilderness district: "In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah, And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages" (Joshua 15:61-62). The cluster occupied the barren limestone bench above the Dead Sea between En-gedi and Beth-arabah — small frontier settlements that watched over the wilderness routes from Judah down to the Dead Sea and across to Edom. Some scholars connect Middin with the Qumran/Khirbet Mird area where the Dead Sea Scrolls were later hidden, though the identification remains debated.