miklat · refuge

What it means

miklat (מִקְלָט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “refuge”.

Asylum: a place where someone is kept safe.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The cities where one who killed by accident could flee.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×11
• Joshua×7
• 1 Chronicles×2

• Numbers 35:6

  And the cities that you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge that you shall give for the manslayer to flee there; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

• Numbers 35:11

  you shall select for yourselves cities; they shall be cities of refuge for you, and the manslayer who strikes down a person inadvertently may flee there.

• Numbers 35:12

  The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the community for judgment.

• Numbers 35:13

  And the cities that you give shall be six cities of refuge for you.

• Numbers 35:14

  Three cities you shall give beyond the Jordan, and three cities you shall give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

• Numbers 35:15

  For the sons of Israel and for the resident alien and for the temporary resident among them these six cities shall be for refuge, for anyone who strikes down a person inadvertently to flee there.

• Numbers 35:25

  And the community shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the community shall return him to his city of refuge to which he had fled; and he shall dwell in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

• Numbers 35:26

  But if the manslayer does go out beyond the border of his city of refuge to which he fled,

• Numbers 35:27

  and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall have no bloodguilt.

• Numbers 35:28

  For in his city of refuge he must dwell until the death of the high priest; and after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.

• Numbers 35:32

  And you shall not accept compensation for one who fled to his city of refuge, to return to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

• Joshua 20:2

  “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘Set apart for yourselves the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,

• Joshua 20:3

  so that the manslayer who mortally strikes a person inadvertently, unknowingly, may flee there; and they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.

• Joshua 21:13

  And to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, and Libnah with its pasturelands,

• Joshua 21:21

  And they gave them Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasturelands,

• Joshua 21:27

  And to the sons of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half tribe of Manasseh Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, and Be-eshterah with its pasturelands —two cities.

• Joshua 21:32

  And from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, and Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands —three cities.

• Joshua 21:38

  And from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, and Mahanaim with its pasturelands,

• 1 Chronicles 6:57

  And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron; Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,

• 1 Chronicles 6:67

  And they gave them the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,