Bible Names

Mephaath: meaning of the name

Mephaath means “appearance, or force, of waters.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Mephaath in Hebrew and Greek

מוֹפַעַת H4158

Môwphaʻath (mo-fah'-ath) — Mophaath or Mephaath, a place in Palestine

(Jeremiah 48:21) or מֵיפַעַת; or מֵפַעַת; from H3313 (יָפַע); illuminative;

Places named Mephaath

Mephaath in Scripture

“Mephaath” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 13:18

    And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

  • Joshua 21:37

    Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:79

    Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:

  • Jeremiah 48:21

    And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,