Word

מִצְפָּה

Mitspâh · H4709 · Hebrew · proper noun · 40 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 places

Mizpahfirst named in Judges 20:130 verses
Mizpahfirst named in Genesis 31:496 verses
Mizpahfirst named in Joshua 11:31 verse

Meanings

Mizpah, Mizpeh

Mizpah, also known as Mizpeh, a town in Gilead where Jacob and Laban built a monument after their reconciliation and where Jephthah also lived

Examples
Genesis 31:49 and Mizpah, for he said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent one from the other.
Joshua 11:3 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
Judges 10:17 Then the sons of Ammon were summoned, and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel gathered together and camped in Mizpah.
Mizpah

Town, also known as Mizpeh; territory of Benjamin; location where Israel assembled after the atrocity that was committed in Gibeah; location where Israel assembled during the time of Samuel's leadership; residence of governor Gedaliah after the destruction of Jerusalem

Examples
Judges 20:1 Then all the sons of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, came out, and the congregation assembled as one person to the LORD at Mizpah.
Judges 20:3 (Now the sons of Benjamin heard that the sons of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the sons of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness take place?”
Judges 21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin in marriage.”

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בָּנָהto build, to rebuild, to establish 2
סָבַבto turn, to go around, to surround 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

17 occurrences in 4 groups

בin/on/with 21
מִןfrom 8
לto/for 2
בֵּיןbetween, among 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 4 groups

אִישׁman, person, each 1
פֶּלֶךְdistrict 1
אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
שַׂרcommander, chief, official 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Locations003001010: The word names Mizpah, a significant site of assembly and covenant repeatedly referenced across the narratives of Jacob and Laban, the judges, and the wars against Benjamin and Ammon.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4709. Mitspah מִצְמָּה38 proper name, of a location (properly outlook-point or +?; with…

H4709. Mitspah
מִצְמָּה38 proper name, of a location (properly outlook-point or +?; with article (exceptHos Jos 5:1)); —
1 in Gilead, explanation as name given to Laban's cairn, north of Jabbok Gen 31:49 (on text see Ball Holz; ᵐ5 ἡ ὅρασις).
2 probably south of Jabbok, Jdg 10:17 (ἡ σκοπιά), Jdg 11:11, Jdg 11:34 (Μασσηφα; so ᵐ5L Jdg 10:17), Hos 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 ׳אֶרֶץ Jos 11:3, Μασευμαν, Μασσηφα(θ), = בִּקְעַתמִֿצְמֶּה Jos 11:8, Μασσωχ, Μασσηφα; see BuhlGeogr. 240.
4 old sacred place in Benjamin, Μασσηφα, etc.; — ׳הַמּ Jdg 20:1 +, הַמִּצְמָּ֫תָה 1Sa 7:5 +; — Jdg 20:1, Jdg 20:3; Jdg 21:1, Jdg 21:5, Jdg 21:8; 1Sa 7:5 1Sa 7:7t. 1 Samuel 7; 1 Samuel 10; 1Ki 15:22 2Ch 16:6; 2Ki 25:23, 2Ki 25:25; Jer 40:10 Jer 40:12t. 40, 41; Neh 3:7, Neh 3:15, Neh 3:19; = הַמִּצְמֶּה Jos 18:26; — modern Nabî Samwîl, 5 miles northwest of Jerusalem, see BuhlGeogr. 167 f..

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Locations40 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0