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af'-ra: the King James Version form for the Revised Version (British and American) BETH-LEAPHRAH (Mic 1:10). ⇒See a list of verses on APHRAH in the Bible. ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia....

beth-le-af'-ra (beth le`aphrah; Septuagint ex oikou kata gelota, "house of dust"): The name of a place found only in Mic 1:10. From the connection in which it is used it was probably in the Philistine plain. There seems to be a play upon the name in the sentence, "at Beth le-`apharah have I rolled m...

gath (gath; Septuagint Geth, "winepress"): One of the five chief cities of the Philistines (Jos 13:3; 1Sa 6:17). It was a walled town (2Ch 26:6) and was not taken by Joshua, and, although many conflicts took place between the Israelites and its people, it does not seem to have been captured until th...

(mikhah; Meichaias; an abbreviation for Micaiah (Jer 26:18), and this again of the longer form of the word in 2Ch 17:7; compare 1Ki 22:8): ⇒See a list of verses on MICAH in the Bible. 1. Name and Person: The name signifies "who is like Yah?"; compare Michael, equal to "who is like El?" (i.e. God...

1. Derivation of Names Manifest: As a rule, Semitic words clearly reveal their origin and structure. The Semite might, indeed, err with respect to the particular meaning intended, where a word was current in several significations. Thus, the vale of bakha', mentioned in Ps 84:7 (Eng. 6), is open to ...

sha'-fer (shaphir, "glittering"; kalos; the King James Version Saphir): One of a group of towns mentioned in Mic 1:10-15. From the association with Gath, Achzib (of Judah) and Mareshah, it would seem that the places mentioned were in Southwestern Palestine. According to Eusebius, in Onomasticon, the...