Reference: Mephaath

splendour, a Levitical city (Jos 21:37) of the tribe of Reuben (Jos 13:18).

("beauty".) A town of Reuben (Jos 13:17-18; 21:37); a dependency of Heshbon, N. of Amen, in the "downs" (mishor), the modern Belka (Jer 48:21). Assigned to the Merarite Levites. Regained by Moab.

A city of Reuben (Jos 13:18); assigned to the Levites (Jos 21:37; 1Ch 6:79); a Moabite city in Jer 48:21. In the 4th cent. a.d. it is said to have been the station of a Roman garrison.

Mepha'ath

Levitical city in Reuben, east of the Jordan. Jos 13:18; 21:37; 1Ch 6:79; Jer 48:21. Not identified

Meph'a-ath

(splendor height), city of the Reubenites, one of the towns independently an Heshhon,

Jos 13:18

lying in the district of the Mishor comp. ver.

Jos 13:17

and Jere 48:21 Authorized Version "plain," which probably answered to the modern Belka. It was one of the cities allotted with their suburbs to the Merarite Levites.

Jos 21:37; 1Ch 6:79

Its site is uncertain.