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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Mithcah (Mithkah)

"Sweetness." One of the stops late in the forty years of wandering, in Numbers 33, with no word on why it got the name and no known site.

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"Sweetness." One of the stops late in the forty years of wandering, in Numbers 33, with no word on why it got the name and no known site.

Who this is

Mithcah appears only in the wilderness itinerary of Numbers 33:28-29, one of the unidentified stations Israel passed through late in the forty years of wandering. Its Hebrew name means sweetness, but nothing in the text explains why it was so called, and its exact location is unknown.

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The word

H4989

Where it appears
  • Numbers 33:28
  • Numbers 33:29

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