Ramath-mizpeh

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Ramath-mizpeh, elevation of the watch-tower