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# מִצְפֶּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4707

**observatory** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

observatory [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4707/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִצְפֶּה²: n.m. watch-tower outlook-point [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4707/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. watch-tower, Is 21:8. outlook-point, 2 Ch 20:24 on high ground.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a watchtower (1); watchtower (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 21:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.8/#tree)

וַיִּקְרָ֖א אַרְיֵ֑ה עַל־מִצְפֶּ֣ה ׀ אֲדֹנָ֗י אָנֹכִ֞י עֹמֵ֤ד תָּמִיד֙ יוֹמָ֔ם וְעַל־מִ֨שְׁמַרְתִּ֔י אָנֹכִ֥י נִצָּ֖ב כָּל־הַלֵּילֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.called.out a.lion on a.watchtower Lord my I \[am\].standing continually by.day and at post my I \[am\].stationed all the nights

*JPS 1917:* And he cried as a lion: 'Upon the watch-tower, O Lord, I stand continually in the daytime, and I am set in my ward all the nights.'

[2 Chronicles 20:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.24/#tree)

וִֽיהוּדָ֛ה בָּ֥א עַל־הַמִּצְפֶּ֖ה לַמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַיִּפְנוּ֙ אֶל־הֶ֣הָמ֔וֹן וְהִנָּ֧ם פְּגָרִ֛ים נֹפְלִ֥ים אַ֖רְצָה וְאֵ֥ין פְּלֵיטָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Judah it.came to the watchtower of the wilderness and they.turned to the multitude and there they \[were\].corpses fallen ground to.\[the\] and there.\[was\].not an.escaped.remnant

*JPS 1917:* And when Judah came to the watch-tower of the wilderness, they looked upon the multitude; and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none that escaped.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4707/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).