Lookout
מִצְפֶּהStrong’s H4707mitspeh (mits-peh)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mitspeh is the Hebrew word usually translated “watchtower”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.”
Meaning
- Watchtower, lookout point
How it's translated
- the watchtower 1
- a watchtower 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מִצְפֶּה mitspeh · lookout
watchtower, lookout point
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lookout” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LOOK'-OUT, noun
A careful looking or watching for any object or event.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.