How to Pronounce Ramath-mizpeh
RAY-muhth-MIZ-puh
Ramath-mizpeh is pronounced RAY-muhth-MIZ-puh (ˌreɪməθˈmɪzpɛ): four syllables, stress on the first and third.
What does Ramath-mizpeh mean?
Ramath-mizpeh means “elevation of the watch-tower”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Where was Ramath-mizpeh?
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.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
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