mitspa · Mizpah

What it means

mitspa (מִצְפָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Mizpah”.

"watchpost", a place from which one keeps watch. The name of several places.

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.

The place

• Mizpah ?

  Today: possibly Tell en-Nasbeh, West Bank

  The name of several places; the main one was north of Jerusalem in Benjamin, and its exact site is not certain.

  There Samuel gathered Israel, who confessed, “We have sinned against YHWH” (1 Sam 7:5-6), and there he presented Saul as king (1 Sam 10:17-24).

  Genesis 31:49Judges 20:11 Samuel 7:51 Samuel 10:17

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×8
• 1 Samuel×8
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Jeremiah×10
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 31:49

  and Mizpah, for he said, “May YHWH watch between me and you when we are hidden each of us from the other.

• Joshua 11:3

  the Canaanite in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

• Judges 10:17

  The sons of Ammon were summoned and camped in Gilead, and the sons of Israel gathered and camped at Mizpah.

• Judges 11:11

  So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him over them head and commander; and Jephthah spoke all his words before YHWH at Mizpah.

• Judges 11:34

  Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dances. She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

• Judges 20:1

  Then all the sons of Israel went out, and the community assembled as one man, from Dan to Beersheba, and the land of Gilead, to YHWH at Mizpah.

• Judges 20:3

  Now the sons of Benjamin heard that the sons of Israel had gone up to Mizpah. And the sons of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this evil happen?”

• Judges 21:1

  Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, saying, “No one of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”

• Judges 21:5

  And the sons of Israel said, “Who is there that did not come up in the assembly from all the tribes of Israel to YHWH?” For the great oath had been concerning him who did not come up to YHWH at Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

• Judges 21:8

  And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to YHWH at Mizpah?” And look, no man had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

• 1 Samuel 7:5

  And Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray for you to YHWH.”

• 1 Samuel 7:6

  So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before YHWH, and they fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against YHWH.” And Samuel judged the sons of Israel at Mizpah.

• 1 Samuel 7:7

  And the Philistines heard that the sons of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, and the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And the sons of Israel heard it and were afraid because of the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 7:11

  And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and struck them as far as below Beth-car.

• 1 Samuel 7:12

  Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Eben-ezer, and said, “Until now YHWH has helped us.”

• 1 Samuel 7:16

  He would go year by year and make the round of Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah, and judge Israel in all these places.

• 1 Samuel 10:17

  And Samuel summoned the people to YHWH at Mizpah.

• 1 Kings 15:22

  Then King Asa summoned all Judah, none exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building; and King Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.

• 2 Kings 25:23

  All the chiefs of the forces, they and the men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, and they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah: Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

• 2 Kings 25:25

  And it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, of the royal offspring, came, and ten men with him, and they struck Gedaliah, and he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

• 2 Chronicles 16:6

  And Asa the king took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building; and he built with them Geba and Mizpah.

• Nehemiah 3:7

  And next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, repaired, of the throne of the governor of the other side of the river.

• Nehemiah 3:15

  And the Fountain Gate Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired; he built it and roofed it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.

• Nehemiah 3:19

  And next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired a second section, opposite the ascent to the armory at the angle.

• Jeremiah 40:10

  As for me, look, I am living at Mizpah to stand before the Chaldeans who come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil, and put them in your vessels, and live in your cities that you have taken.”

• Jeremiah 40:15

  Then Johanan son of Kareah said to Gedaliah in secret at Mizpah, saying, “Let me go, please, and strike Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one will know. Why should he strike you dead, and all Judah be scattered, who are gathered to you, and the remnant of Judah perish?”

• Jeremiah 41:1

  And it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama came, of the royal offspring, and the great men of the king, and ten men with him, to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah; and they ate bread together there at Mizpah.

• Jeremiah 41:3

  Also all the Jews who were with him, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war, Ishmael struck down.

• Jeremiah 41:6

  And Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out to meet them from Mizpah, going along and weeping; and it happened, when he met them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”

• Jeremiah 41:10

  Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were at Mizpah, the daughters of the king and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard had entrusted to Gedaliah son of Ahikam; Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and went to cross over to the sons of Ammon.

• Jeremiah 41:14

  So all the people whom Ishmael had carried captive from Mizpah turned around and came back and went to Johanan son of Kareah.

• Jeremiah 41:16

  Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the chiefs of the forces who were with him took all the remnant of the people whom he had brought back from Ishmael son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam: men, men of war, and women and little ones and court officials, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

• Hosea 5:1

  Hear this, priests, and pay attention, house of Israel; and house of the king, give ear; for the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread over Tabor.

And 3 more times.