HebrewH4709Noun

מִצְפָּה

mits.pah

37Occurrences
H4709Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Mitspah, the name of two places in Palestine

feminine of H4708 (מִצְפֶּה);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Mizpah = "watchtower" a place in Gilead south of Jabbok

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

מִצְפָּה appears 37 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
12
Judges
8
1 Samuel
7
Nehemiah
3
2 Kings
2
1 Kings
1
2 Chronicles
1
Genesis
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 15:22BSB

Then King Asa summoned all the men of Judah, with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.

1 Samuel 7:16BSB

Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.

Judges 11:11BSB

So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.

Jeremiah 40:6BSB

So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.

Jeremiah 41:3BSB

Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Chaldean soldiers who were there.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.