Lexical Summary Mitspah: the name of several places in Isr Original Word: מִצְפָהTransliteration: Mitspah Phonetic Spelling: (mits-paw') Part of Speech: Proper Name Feminine Short Definition: the name of several places in Isr Meaning: Mizpah -- the name of several places in Israel Strong's Concordance Mitspah Feminine of Mitspeh; Mitspah, the name of two places in Palestine -- Mitspah. (This seems rather to be only an orthographic variation of Mitspeh when "in pause".) see HEBREW Mitspeh see HEBREW Mitspeh Brown-Driver-Briggs H4709. Mitspah מִצְמָּה38 proper name, of a location (properly outlook-point or +?; with article (exceptHos Joshua 5:1)); — 1 in Gilead, explanation as name given to Laban's cairn, north of Jabbok Genesis 31:49 (on text see Ball Holz; ᵐ5 ἡ ὅρασις). 2 probably south of Jabbok, Judges 10:17 (ἡ σκοπιά), 11:11, 34 (Μασσηφα; so ᵐ5L 10:17), Hosea 5:1 (ἡ σκοπιά); apparently = II. מִצְמֶּה 3, BuhlGeogr. 262 (מֶּה-, מָּה-, seem to interchange); site unknown; see conjectures in Buhll.c., compare GASmGeogr. 586. 3. near Hermon, הַמּ ׳אֶרֶץ Joshua 11:3, Μασευμαν, Μασσηφα(θ), = בִּקְעַתמִֿצְמֶּה 11:8, Μασσωχ, Μασσηφα; see BuhlGeogr. 240. 4 old sacred place in Benjamin, Μασσηφα, etc.; — ׳הַמּ Judges 20:1 +, הַמִּצְמָּ֫תָה 1 Samuel 7:5 +; — Judges 20:1, 3; 21:1, 5, 8; 1 Samuel 7:5 7t. 1 Samuel 7; 1 Samuel 10; 1 Kings 15:22 2 Chronicles 16:6; 2 Kings 25:23, 25; Jeremiah 40:10 12t. 40, 41; Nehemiah 3:7, 15, 19; = הַמִּצְמֶּה Joshua 18:26; — modern Nabî Samwîl, 5 miles northwest of Jerusalem, see BuhlGeogr. 167 f.. |
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