Ezekiel 27:17

17. Minnith, and Pannag The Minnith mentioned here is probably not the Amorite town mentioned in Judges 11:33 ( vs. Bertholet, etc.), but may be the thing after which the town was named. (Compare note Ezekiel 27:16.) What it was no one knows. The Syrian translates “millet;” LXX., “ointment,” while many scholars would suggest “spices,” because these are prominent in other lists of the productions of the land of Canaan. (Compare Genesis 43:11.) It is possible that it was the technical name for a species of wheat which was the greatest necessity supplied by Judah to Tyre (1 Kings 5:9-11; Acts 12:20). As R.V. suggests (margin), following the Mishna, pannag may be a species of confection, or Cornill may be right in reading donag (wax), but nothing is certain. The prophets did not like their countrymen to imitate the habits of the Canaanites (Old Hebrews, “traders”) in leaving the quiet simple life of agriculture for the more speculative, luxurious, and often dissolute career of the “traveling men” who were engaged in trade.