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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
MISHAL.A town of Asher (Jos_19:26), given to the Gershonite Levites (Jos_21:30) = 1Ch_6:74 Mashal. The site is unknown.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A town of Asher, assigned to the Gershonite Levites (Jos_19:26; Jos_21:30). In 1Ch_6:74 Mashal.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Mi'shal. (entreaty). See Misheal.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mı̄?shal (משׁאל, mish'āl): A town in the territory of Asher (Jos_19:26, the King James Version ?Misheal,? Μαασά, Maasá), assigned to the Gershonite Levites (Jos_21:30; Codex Vaticanus Βασσελλάν, Bassellán; Codex Alexandrinus Μασαάλ, Masaál = ?Mashal? of 1Ch_6:74). Eusebius, Onomasticon (s.v. ?Masan?) places it near Carmel by the sea. It is not identified.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Mishal
(Heb. Mishal', מַשְׁאָל, prob. entreaty; Sept. Μισαλά), a city of the tribe of Asher (Jos_19:26, where it is Anglicized Misheal), assigned to the Levites of the family of Gershom (Jos_21:30); elsewhere called MASHAL (1Ch_6:74). It is doubtless the Masan referred to by Eusebius (Onomast. s.v. Μασάν) as situated on the Mediterranean, near Carmel, a position with which the text (Jos_19:26) agrees (see Keil, Comment. ad loc.). It is probably the modern ruined village Misalli, near the shore about three miles north of Athlit (Van de Velde, Memoir, page 335).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.