STRONGS NUMBER H4709


Word Summary
Mitspah: the name of several places in Isr
Original Word: מִצְפָה
Transliteration: 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; ᵐ5ἡ 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 ׳אֶרֶץJoshua 11:3, Μασευμαν, Μασσηφα(θ), = בִּקְעַתמִֿצְמֶּה11:8, Μασσωχ, Μασσηφα; see BuhlGeogr. 240.

4 old sacred place in Benjamin, Μασσηφα, etc.; — ׳הַמּJudges 20:1 +, הַמִּצְמָּ֫תָה1 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; = הַמִּצְמֶּהJoshua 18:26; — modern Nabî Samwîl, 5 miles northwest of Jerusalem, see BuhlGeogr. 167 f..