מִצְפָּה

Strong’s Definition

Mitspah, the name of two places in Palestine

Etymology & Derivation

feminine of H4708 (מִצְפֶּה);

KJV Usage

Mitspah. (This seems rather to be only an orthographic variation of H4708 (מִצְפֶּה) when 'in pause'.)

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 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

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Mitspâh; Pronunciation: mits-paw'