Refuge
מִקְלָטStrong’s H4733miqlat (miq-lat)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Miqlat is the Hebrew word usually translated “refuge”, “refuge his” and “refuge of”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.”
Meaning
- Refuge, asylum
How it's translated
- refuge 7
- refuge his 5
- refuge of 5
- a refuge 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 11
- Joshua 7
- 1 Chronicles 2
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 35:11Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.
- Numbers 35:12And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
- Numbers 35:13And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.
- Numbers 35:14Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
- Numbers 35:15These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
- Numbers 35:25And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
Hebrew dictionary
מִקְלָט miqlat · refuge
refuge, asylum
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “refuge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REF'UGE, noun
[Latin refugium, refugio; re and fugio, to flee.]
- Shelter or protection from danger or distress.“We have made lies our refuge” Isaiah 28:15“- We might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us” Hebrews 6:18
- That which shelters or protects from danger, distress or calamity; a strong hold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; any place inaccessible to an enemy.“The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats” Psalms 104:18“The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed” Psalms 9:9
- An expedient to secure protection or defense.
- Expedient, in general.
All definitions and other forms of “refuge”
REF'UGE, verb transitive
To shelter; to protect.
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.