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Mizpeh
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Miz´peh. This name has the same meaning and application as Mizpah, and is borne by several places mentioned in Scripture.
Mizpeh, 1
A town in the plains of Judah (). Eusebius and Jerome identify it with a place which, in their time, bore the name of Mapha, on the borders of Eleutheropolis southward, on the road to Ælia or Jerusalem.
Mizpeh, 2
The place more usually called Mizpah, in the tribe of Benjamin, is once called Mizpeh () [MIZPAH, 2].
Mizpeh of Gilead, 3
Through or by which Jephthah passed in his pursuit of the Ammonites (). Some think it the same with Mizpah, 1; and it is possibly the same with the Ramath-mizpeh of .
Mizpeh, 4
A valley in the region of Lebanon (; comp. 11:3).
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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Mizpeh'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/kbe/m/mizpeh.html.
Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Mizpeh'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/kbe/m/mizpeh.html.
