Mephaath

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


MEPHAATH.—A city of Reuben (Jos_13:18); assigned to the Levites (Jos_21:37, 1Ch_6:79); a Moabite city in Jer_48:21. In the 4th cent. a.d. it is said to have been the station of a Roman garrison.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


("beauty".) A town of Reuben (Jos_13:17-18; Jos_21:37); a dependency of Heshbon, N. of Amen, in the "downs" (mishor), the modern Belka (Jer_48:21). Assigned to the Merarite Levites. Regained by Moab.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Meph'a-ath. (splendor height). City of the Reubenites, one of the towns independently at Heshhon, Jos_13:18, lying in the district of the Mishor. Compare Jos_13:17 and Jer_48:21. Authorized Version, "plain," which probably answered to the modern Belka. It was one of the cities allotted, with their suburbs, to the Merarite Levites. Jos_21:37; 1Ch_6:79. It's site is uncertain.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


mef?ā́-ath, mḗ-fā?ath (מפעת, mēpha‛ath and מיפעת, mēypha‛ath, מופעת, mōpha‛ath; Codex Vaticanus, Μαιφάαθ, Maipháath, Μηφάαθ, Mēpháath): A city of the Amorites in the territory allotted to Reuben, named with Kedemoth and Kiriathaim (Jos_13:18), and given to the Merarite Levites (Jos_21:37; 1Ch_6:79). It appears again as a Moabite town in Jer_48:21. It was known to Eusebius and Jerome (Onom) as occupied by a Roman garrison, but the site has been lost.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Mephaath
[some Mepha'ath] (Hebrews Meypha'ath, מֵיפִעִת, prob. splendor; once defectively written מֵפִעִת. Jos_13:18, and once [Kethib] מוֹפִעִת, Jer_48:21; Sept. Μηφάαθ in Josh., Φαάθ v. r. Μαεφλά in Chron. And Μαφάς v. r. Μωφάθ in Jer.), a Levitical (Merarite) city (Jos_21:37; 1Ch_6:79) of the tribe of Reuben (Jos_13:18), doubtless originally (like Heshbon, of which it formed a dependency) in the hands of the Amorites (Num_21:26), but afterwards belonging to Moab (Jer_48:21); probably situated near Kedemoth and Jahazah, in connection with which it is always mentioned. Eusebius (Onomast.) calls it Mephath (Μηφάθ), and states that it was still occupied by a Roman garrison as a defence against the Arabs of the neighboring desert. As the name implies a conspicuous position, the site may possibly correspond with that of the modern village with ruins on an eminence marked as Umn el- Weled on Van de Velde's Map, east of Medeba. “The extended, and possibly later, form of the name which occurs in Chronicles and Jeremiah, as if Mey Phaath, ‘waters of Phaath,' may be, as in other cases, an attempt to fix an intelligible meaning on an archaic or foreign word;” although the fuller form appears to be radical (so both Gesenius and Ftirst, from
יָפִע, to glitter, be eminent).

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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