Strong's Hebrew · H4709
H4709 Mitspâh
מִצְפָּה
mits-paw'
Mizpah
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Mitspâh appears 40 times in Scripture, including Genesis 31:49 and Joshua 11:3. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
Mitspah, the name of two places in Palestine
In the King James Version
Mitspah. (This seems rather to be only an orthographic variation of H4708 (מִצְפֶּה) when 'in pause'.)
Derivation
feminine of H4708 (מִצְפֶּה);
Appears 40 times in Scripture
“As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.””
“to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpah.”
“Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.”
“Then the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, and the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.”
“After this, Samuel summoned the people to the LORD at Mizpah”
“When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, as well as their men.”
“It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.”
“So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.”
“The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.”
“So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
