Lexicon
מִצְפֶּה
mits.peh
H4708
N:N--L Hebrew

Mizpeh

10
Occurrences
4
Books
Hebrew
Language

mits.peh is a proper place-name used for destinations, settlements, a valley, and a gathering point in biblical narratives.

The attested form is consistently a proper place-name: people travel to or from it, named towns include it, a valley bears the name, and several accounts place Gedaliah and those who come to him there.

Senses in use

  1. Named location in travel and settlement settings · dominant

    All supplied tokens are tagged Noun · Proper and occur as location names. In Jeremiah 40:6 the APB renders Jeremiah going to Gedaliah “at Mizpeh,” while Jeremiah 40:8 and Jeremiah 40:13 place arriving groups with Gedaliah there; Joshua 15:38 and Joshua 18:26 list the name among other places, and Judges 11:29 marks Jephthah's route through and from “Mizpeh of Gilead.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently presents the name as “Mizpeh,” sometimes with qualifiers such as “of Moab,” “of Gilead,” or “the valley of Mizpeh.” These phrases show the verse-level setting rather than isolating a separate English rendering for each token.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture