Quick Definition
Mizpah
Biblical Persons & Places
Mizpah
Mizpah_3
A location first mentioned at Jdg.20.1;
referred to as Mizpah (KJV= Mizpeh) (מִצְפָּה), or Mizpeh (NIV= Mizpah) (מִצְפֶּה), or Ramah (רָמָה), or Ramathaim-zophim (NIV= Ramathaim a Zuphite) (רָמָתַיִם צוֹפִים), or Arimathea (Ἀριμαθαία).
Mizpeh_Valley
Valley of Mizpeh
A location first mentioned at Jos.11.8;
referred to as Mizpeh Valley (מִצְפָּה), or Valley/ of Mizpeh (מִצְפֶּה בִּקְעָה).
Strong's Definition
Mitspah, the name of two places in Palestine
Derivation: feminine of H4708 (מִצְפֶּה);
KJV Usage: Mitspah. (This seems rather to be only an orthographic variation of H4708 (מִצְפֶּה) when 'in pause'.)
Outline of Biblical Usage
Mizpah = "watchtower"
1) a place in Gilead north of Jabbok and location of Laban's cairn
2) a place in Gilead south of Jabbok; site unknown
3) a place near Mount Hermon
4) an old sacred place in Benjamin
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
§ Mizpah = "watchtower"
a place in Gilead south of Jabbok
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
מִצְפָּה
mitspâh
BDB Definition:
Mizpah = watchtower
1) a place in Gilead north of Jabbok and location of Labans cairn
2) a place in Gilead south of Jabbok; site unknown
3) a place near Mount Hermon
4) an old sacred place in Benjamin
Part of Speech: noun proper feminine locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H4708
Total KJV Occurrences: 32