Show mizpah anciently name of towns in palestine mizpah Is a hebrew word meaning literally the watchtower it was anciently tile the name of several garri towns or regions of palestine use of the nord ord as asu it parting ting saluta tion states a writer in the cleveland plain dealer Is a reference to its em in ili genesis where a place Is called MIx pali for lie salil said tile the lord watch between me and thee hen we are absent one front from another Ja jacola coll gave it the name it bears toys ays the standard bible dictionary in ili commemoration of the compact with lillian Li iliin bin bill the lie sense in the word Is used in this connection Is slightly sll lity different from that thai in other places instead of oil in outlook i point it indicates a place where bod nd Is In invoked voled ns as a watcher accordingly it wits a place invested with and on tills this ground perhaps was resorted resor led to la in making covenants Cov nants between ln tween clans the lo location catlon of the spot Is fixed by thy the fart fact that jacob on ills his way to canaan crossed the labbok after the covenant with laban this would place ib north of the river suf northwest of lern sh Is supposed to many to lie be tile the exact spot but the identification Is not quite certain Ilo however wever there were ne other places named or |