Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H4708
מִצְפֶּה
Mitspehmits-peh'
Mizpeh
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4708is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4708
Mitspeh, the name of five places in Palestine
The King James renders it: Mizpeh, watch tower. Compare H4709 (מִצְפָּה).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Mitspeh is rendered "Mizpeh". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 11:8and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.
Joshua 11:8מִצְפֶּ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and the Mizpah2
- Mizpah of2
- and from Mizpah of1
- Mizpah1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִצְוָה | mitsvah | commandment | Uses181 |
| מִצְרִי | Mitsri | Egyptian | Uses70 |
| מִצְנֶפֶת | mitsnepheth | turban | Uses12 |
| מִצְעָר | mitsar | little | Uses5 |
| מִצְעָד | mitsad | step | Uses3 |
| מִצְרֵף | mitsreph | crucible | Uses2 |
| מִצְפֶּה | mitspeh | lookout | Uses2 |
| מִצְחָה | mitschah | greave | Uses1 |
| מִצְפֻּן | mitspun | treasure | Uses1 |
| מִצְּעִירָה | mitstseirah | little | Usesnot recorded |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מִצְפֵּ֣ה2
- וְהַמִּצְפֶּ֖ה1
- וְהַמִּצְפֶּ֥ה1
- וּמִמִּצְפֵּ֣ה1
- מִצְפֶּ֖ה1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)2HC/Td/Npl
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmsc
- proper noun (a name)1HNpl
Joshua
three uses
and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.
- מִצְפֶּ֖הmitzpehproper noun (a name)tagged: Mizpah
Dilan, Mizpeh, Joktheel,
- וְהַמִּצְפֶּ֖הvehamitzpehconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and the Mizpah
Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,
- וְהַמִּצְפֶּ֥הvehamitzpehconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and the Mizpah
Judges
two uses
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, then through Mizpah of Gilead. And from there he advanced against the Ammonites.
- מִצְפֵּ֣הmitzpehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: Mizpah of
- וּמִמִּצְפֵּ֣הumimitzpehconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and from Mizpah of
1 Samuel
one use
From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”
- מִצְפֵּ֣הmitzpehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: Mizpah of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.