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Re: Mizpah (hebrew) meaning?

by Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)

4/27/2007, 2:32 PM

Mizpah is a place name in the Bible, not a personal name.

A footnote in the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible to Genesis Chapter 31, Verse 49 (the first reference in the Old Testament to the place) says that Mizpah means "watchpost".

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- Anneza

4/29/2007, 11:22 PM

I knew a woman, from an Afrikaans family, whose name was Mizpah. She was always known as Bunny, for no reason connected to her given name. She would have been born in the late 1920s.

- Noa

4/29/2007, 9:50 PM

That would be Mitzpeh in Hebrew... TZ is always turned into Z in English, but I'd have thought it would stay Mizpeh. Interesting.

- Paul (guest)

4/27/2007, 2:41 PM

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