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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7434
ra.mat ham.mits.peh — Ramath-mizpeh
Ramath-mizpeh = "high place of the watch tower" a place in Gilead on the northern border of Gad Another name of ra.mot gi.l.ad (רָמֹת "Ramoth" H7433)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →The height of Mizpeh or of the watch-tower (Josh. 13:26), a place mentioned as one of the limits of Gad. There were two Mizpehs on the east of the Jordan. This was the Mizpeh where Jacob and Laban made a covenant, “Mizpeh of Gilead,” called also Galeed and Jegar-sahadutha. It has been identified with the modern es-Salt, where the roads from Jericho and from Shechem to Damascus unite, about 25 miles east of the Jordan and 13 south of the Jabbok.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
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