Dictionaries :: Mephaath

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Mephaath:

splendour, a Levitical city (Jos 21:37) of the tribe of Reuben (13:18).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Mephaath:

appearance, or force, of waters

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Mephaath:

mef'-a-ath, me-fa'-ath (mepha‘ath and meypha‘ath, mopha‘ath; Codex Vaticanus, Maiphaath, Mephaath): 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.

Nave's Topical Bible

Mephaath: A Levitical City

In the territory of the tribe of Reuben,

Jos 13:18; 21:37; 1Ch 6:79; Jer 48:21.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Mephaath:

(splendor height) city of the Reubenites, one of the towns independently an Heshhon (Joshua 13:18) lying in the district of the Mishor (compare verse Joshua 13:17 and Jeremiah 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 (Joshua 21:37; 1 Chronicles 6:79). Its site is uncertain.