miq.lat denotes a designated city to which an unintentional killer may flee, remain within its bounds, and receive protection.

The clear legal uses identify a designated city for a person who has killed unintentionally to flee to, remain in, and be protected from the avenger of blood; the city also has defined borders and a period of required residence. In the genealogical clauses of 1 Chronicles 6:42 and 1 Chronicles 6:52, the term's specific contribution cannot be isolated from the APB's sequence of personal names.

1. Designated protective city for an unintentional killer · dominant

   In Numbers 35:11 the absolute singular occurs in instructions to designate cities so that one who kills unintentionally may flee there; in Numbers 35:12 the APB renders the clause "The cities shall be for you as refuge from the avenger of blood." The construct singular in Numbers 35:25 and Numbers 35:28 identifies the city to which the killer fled and in which he must dwell until the high priest's death, while Numbers 35:26 and Numbers 35:27 place protection within the city's border. Joshua 21:13 likewise places the construct form in the assignment of a city "for the manslayer."

   Numbers 35:11Numbers 35:12Numbers 35:25Numbers 35:26Numbers 35:28Joshua 21:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the legal passages, the APB regularly presents the term in phrases such as "cities of refuge," "as refuge," and "city of refuge." The genealogical renderings in 1 Chronicles 6:42 and 1 Chronicles 6:52 do not make this term's individual contribution clear.