Bible Dictionaries
Mephaath

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Meph'a-ath. (splendor height). City of the Reubenites, one of the towns independently at Heshhon, Joshua 13:18, lying in the district of the Mishor. Compare Joshua 13:17 and Jeremiah 48:21. Authorized Version, "plain," which probably answered to the modern Belka. It was one of the cities allotted, with their suburbs, to the Merarite Levites. Joshua 21:37; 1 Chronicles 6:79. It's site is uncertain.

Bibliography Information
Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Mephaath'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​sbd/​m/mephaath.html. 1901.