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Miphkad
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or Name of a gate mentioned in connection with the repair of the wall of Jerusalem by Nehemiah (Nehemiah 3:31). It seems that this gate was not in the wall of Jerusalem, but that the part of the wall facing it was to the east, between the Horse Gate and the Sheep Gate. Indeed, it is not mentioned among the gates of Jerusalem in Nehemiah 12:31 et seq. The word 
designates in Ezekiel 43:21 the place near the Temple where the sin-offering was burned, and it seems to mean "an appointed place," to which the name of this gate may refer. But, while the Septuagint renders 
by Ïήλη Ïοῦ ÎαÏεκάδ, Jerome translates it by "porta judicialis," which induces Lightfoot ("Horæ Hebraicæ," 2:27) to suggest that it may refer either to the hall of judgment in the Prætorium or to the east gate of the Temple. Barclay ("City of the Great King," p. 156), however, identifies the gate Miphkad with the "high gate of Benjamin" (Jeremiah 20:2), locating it at the west end of the bridge which crosses the Tyropæon.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Miphkad'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/m/miphkad.html. 1901.
