MINCHA, in the Jewish customs, offerings of
meal, cakes, or biscuits, made in the temple of the
Lord. The Seventy have sometimes preserved this
word in their translation; but instead of mincha they
read manaa, which doubtless was the received pronun-
ciation in their time. We find manaa in the same
sense, in Baruch i. 10. Levit. ii. 3. &c. See the
Greek of Jerem. xvii. 26. Dan. ii. 46. 2 Kings viii. 5,
9. xvii. 7. xx. 12. 2 Chron. vii. 7. Nehem. xiii. 5. 9.
&c.