HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4706
מִצְעָר
mits.ar — (Mount) Mizar
§ Mizar = "small" a mountain apparently in the northern part of Transjordan near Mount Hermon
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Mizar
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Smallness, a summit on the eastern ridge of Lebanon, near which David lay after escaping from Absalom (Ps. 42:6). It may, perhaps, be the present Jebel Ajlun, thus named, “the little”, in contrast with the greater elevation of Lebanon and Hermon.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.