Hebrew word · H4707

מִצְפֶּה

hamitzpeh

lookout

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

watchtower, lookout point

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

2 Chronicles · 1

  1. 2 Chronicles 20:24 הַמִּצְפֶּ֖ה the watchtower

    When the men of Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the vast army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; no one had escaped.

Isaiah · 1

  1. Isaiah 21:8 מִצְפֶּ֣ה׀ a watchtower

    Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.

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