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Strong H47093 sensesמִצְפָּה

Mizpah

Transliteration
mitspâh
Pronunciation
mits-paw'

Meaning of the name

Mizpah = "watchtower"

The 3 senses of Strong H4709

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H4709 appears in 31 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. A city in Benjamin; a place of gathering and judgmentH4709G23 verses · 7 books
  2. City of refuge east of the JordanH4709H5 verses · Genesis, Judges, Hosea
  3. A region near Mount HermonH4709I1 verse · Joshua

General definition

Feminine of H4708; {Mitspah} the name of two places in Palestine. (This seems rather to be only an orthographical variation of H4708 when ‘in pause´ .): - Mitspah. [This seems rather to be only an orthographical variationof H4708 when in pause.]

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • mizpah17
  • mizpeh14

First verses

  1. Genesis 31:49
    And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
  2. Joshua 11:3
    And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
  3. Judges 10:17
    Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.
  4. Judges 11:11
    Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the Lord in Mizpeh.
  5. Judges 11:34
    And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
  6. Judges 20:1
    Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh.
  7. Judges 20:3
    (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
  8. Judges 21:1
    Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
  9. Judges 21:5
    And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the Lord? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the Lord to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
  10. Judges 21:8
    And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the Lord? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh–gilead to the assembly.
  11. 1 Samuel 7:6
    And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
  12. 1 Samuel 7:11
    And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth–car.
  13. 1 Samuel 7:12
    Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben–ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.
  14. 1 Samuel 7:16
    And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth–el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
  15. 1 Samuel 10:17
    And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord to Mizpeh;
  16. 1 Kings 15:22
    Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
  17. 2 Kings 25:23
    And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
  18. 2 Kings 25:25
    But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
  19. 2 Chronicles 16:6
    Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
  20. Nehemiah 3:7
    And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.