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Strong's #4709 - מִצְפָּה
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- Mizpah = "watchtower"
- a place in Gilead north of Jabbok and location of Laban´s cairn
- a place in Gilead south of Jabbok; site unknown
- a place near Mount Hermon
- an old sacred place in Benjamin
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1 in Gilead, explanation as name given to Laban's cairn, north of Jabbok Genesis 31:49 (on text see Ball Holz; ᵐ5 ἡ ὅρασις).
2 probably south of Jabbok, Judges 10:17 (ἡ σκοπιά), Judges 11:11,34 (Μασσηφα; so ᵐ5 L Judges 10:17), Hosea 5:1 (ἡ σκοπιά); apparently = II. מִצְמֶּה
3, Buhl Geogr. 262 (מֶּה-, מָּה-, seem to interchange); site unknown; see conjectures in Buhl l.c., compare GASm Geogr. 586.
3. near Hermon, ׳אֶרֶץ הַמּ Joshua 11:3, Μασευμαν, Μασσηφα(θ), = בִּקְעַתמִֿצְמֶּה Joshua 11:8, Μασσωχ, Μασσηφα; see Buhl Geogr. 240.
4 old sacred place in Benjamin, Μασσηφα, etc.; — ׳הַמּ Judges 20:1 +, הַמִּצְמָּ֫תָה 1 Samuel 7:5 +; — Judges 20:1,3; Judges 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; = הַמִּצְמֶּה Joshua 18:26; — modern Nabî Samwîl, 5 miles northwest of Jerusalem, see Buhl Geogr. 167f..
מִצְפָּה (“watch-tower,” “lofty place”), [Mizpah], pr.n.
(1) of a town of Gilead, Judges 10:17, 11:11, 34 Judges 11:34; Hosea 5:1 more fully, Judges 11:29, מִצְפֵּה־גִלְעָד. As to the origin of this place, see Genesis 31:49.
(2) of a town of the Benjamites, where the people were accustomed to assemble, Judges 21:1; 1 Samuel 7:5. It was afterwards fortified by Asa, to guard the frontiers against the kingdom of Israel (1 Kings 15:22; 2 Chronicles 16:6); and at length it was made the seat of the Chaldean governor, Jeremiah 40:6 comp. Nehemiah 3:7, 19. The same place is once written מִצְפֶּה (Joshua 18:26).