Strong's H4709 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: מִצְפָּה (Mitspâh)

Pronunciation: mits-paw'

Morphology: n-pr-f

Name Meaning: Mizpah = "watchtower"

Derivation: feminine of מִצְפֶּה (Mitspeh) [H4708];

Definition: Mitspah, the name of two places in Palestine

KJV Renderings: Mitspah. (This seems rather to be only an orthographic variation of מִצְפֶּה (Mitspeh) [H4708] when 'in pause'.)

Senses

1. a place in Gilead north of Jabbok and location of Laban's cairn
2. a place in Gilead south of Jabbok; site unknown
3. a place near Mount Hermon
4. an old sacred place in Benjamin

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.