How to Pronounce Mizar

MIE-zahr

Mizar is pronounced MIE-zahr (ˈmaɪzɑːr): two syllables, stress on the first. Also heard: MYE-zahr.

What does Mizar mean?

Mizar means “little”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

What is Mizar?

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.

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

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MYE-zahr

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