HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4366
מִכְמְתָת
mikh.me.tat — Michmethath
§ Michmethah = "hiding place" a place in northeast Ephraim near the border of Manasseh between Shechem and Taanath-shilo
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Michmethah
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Hiding-place, a town in the northern border of Ephraim and Manasseh, and not far west of Jordan (Josh. 16:6; 17:7).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.