Lexical Definition

‎מִצְפֶּה‎ Mitspeh (mits-peh') Mizpeh ^N:N--L
the same as ‎מִצְפֶּה‎

Mizpeh, watch tower. Compare ‎מִצְפָּה‎.

• § Mizpeh = "watchtower"
• Mitspeh, the name of five places in Palestine

1) a city in the district of the Shephelah or lowlands of Judah
2) a place in Moab on the east of the Jordan
3) a place in Gilead
4) a place near Mount Hermon
5) a place in Benjamin; also 'Mizpah'

Extended Information

name of: מִצְפָּה

• Combined with mits.pah (‎מ‎ִ‎צ‎ְ‎פ‎ָּ‎ה‎ "Mizpah" מִצְפָּה)
• a place near Mount Hermon

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. ‎מִצְפֶּה‎

proper name, of a location1. ‎׳‎‎הַמּ‎ in Shephelah of Judah Josh 15:38, Μας(ς)ηφα.

2. ‎מִצְפֵּהמֿוֺאָב‎ 1Sam 22:3, Μασσηφα.

3. ‎מִצְפֵּה גִלְעָד‎ Judg 11:29 (twice in verse) (ἡ σκοπιά) probably = ‎׳‎‎רָמַת הַמּ‎ Josh 13:26 Μας(ση)φα and perhaps ‎מִצְפָּה‎

2. — Josh 11:8; Josh 18:26 see ‎מִצְפָּה‎

3,4.

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