מִשְׂרְפוֹת מַיִם
Misrephoth-maim
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Misrephoth-maim’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4956 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua 2 verses
- Joshua 11:8 מִשְׂרְפ֣וֹת מַ֔יִם n Proper n Proper Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining.
- Joshua 13:6 מִשְׂרְפֹ֥ת מַ֨יִם֙ n Proper n Proper all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allot you it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
About this entry
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משרפות מים — transliterated Misrᵉphôwth mayim — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Misrephoth-maim.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Joshua (100% of all occurrences). Debuting at Joshua 11:8, it then recurs through the corpus. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4956 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Misrephothmaim 2×
- American Standard Version: Misrephoth-maim 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Misrephoth-maim 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Misrephoth maim 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4956 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4956 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4956 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4956 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Misrephoth-maim = "burnings of water"
- a place in northern Palestine near Sidon
Word origin
n.pr.loc. named with Ṣidon Jos 11:8; 13:6 (appar. near coast); cp. (dub. BuhlGeogr. 229) Mùêrfe, 14 m. S. of Tyre, v. Di and reff., GuérinGal ii. 166 f.—Μασερων, Μασρεφωθμαειμ, etc.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from משרפה (misrâphâh) (H4955) — burning.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H4956 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִשְׂרְפ֣וֹת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 11:8 | 1 |
| מִשְׂרְפֹ֥ת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 13:6 | 1 |
| מַ֔יִם | Noun, Proper | Joshua 11:8 | 1 |
| מַ֨יִם֙ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 13:6 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Misrephoth-maim). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Burning of waters, supposed to be salt-pans, or lime-kilns, or glass-factories, a place to which Joshua pursued a party of Canaanites after the defeat of Jabin (Josh. 11:8). It is identified with the ruin Musheirifeh, at the promontory of en-Nakhurah, some 11 miles north of Acre.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(the flew of waters), a place in northern Palestine. Dr. Thomson treats Misrephoth-maim as identical with a collection of springs called Ain-Musheirifeh, on the seashore close under the Ras en-Nakhura ; but this has the disadvantage of being very far from Sidon. May it not rather be the place with which we are familiar in the later history as Zarephat, near Sidon?
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
hot waters
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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