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Housing Units (2000): 51
Land area (2000): 3.029863 sq. miles (7.847308 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.029863 sq. miles (7.847308 sq. km)
FIPS code: 43540
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 47.925154 N, 94.206407 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56660
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mizpah
Wikipedia
Mizpah or Miz'peh ("watch-tower; the look-out") may refer to:
- one of several places in ancient Israel:
- Mizpah in Benjamin, a city near Jerusalem
- Mizpah in Gilead (Genesis), the place where Laban overtook Jacob on his return to Canaan
- Mizpah in Gilead (Judges), a town where Jephthah resided, possibly identical to the above
- Mizpah in Gilead (Joshua), a region at the foot of Mount Hermon inhabited by Hivites
- Mizpah (Moab), a town to which David removed his parents for safety during his persecution by Saul
- Mizpah (Judah), a city of Judah (Joshua 15:38), in the district of the Shephelah or maritime lowland
- Mizpah, Minnesota, a town in the United States
- Mizpah, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in the United States
- Mizpah Congregation, a Jewish congregation in Chattanooga, Tennessee founded in 1866
- Mizpah (emotional bond), an emotional bond between people who are separated
- Mizpah Spring Hut, one of the High Huts of the White Mountains
- Mizpah (steamboat), later converted to a diesel tug which ran on Puget Sound
- USS Mizpah, a United States Navy patrol yacht converted from a private vessel of the same name in 1942
- The Mizpah Hotel, a historic hotel in Tonopah, Nevada
Mizpah ("watchtower") was either a royal city or fortress in Moab to which David removed his parents for safety during his persecution by Saul (1 Sam. 22:3). Modern day sites suggested as its possible location include Kerak ( Kir-Moab) and Rujm el-Meshrefeh in Jordan.
Mizpah is Hebrew for "watchtower." As mentioned in the Bible, it marked an agreement between two men, with God as their witness.
Jacob had secretly fled the house of Laban, his father-in-law, in the middle of the night, taking flocks of animals, all his other assets, and his two wives and their children (the daughters and grandchildren of Laban) with him, intending never to return. Laban discovered this and pursued Jacob. After discussion, the two decided to formalize the separation.
Laban admitted that his daughters had voluntarily left, saying "(W)hat can I do to these daughters or to the children which they have bore?" (Genesis 31:43). He agreed to let Jacob go in peace, but exacted a promise from Jacob to never abuse his daughters or take additional wives (Genesis 31:50).
The two men then determined to erect a watchtower, a Mizpah, to commemorate this promise, even though no person was present other than the two men when it was made, for "God is witness between you and me." Both of the men also agreed that they would consider the mizpah a border between their respective territories, and that would not pass the watchtower to visit one another "to do evil" (Genesis 31:52).
Since that time, the mizpah has come to connote an emotional bond between people who are separated (either physically or by death). Mizpah jewelry is often made in the form of a coin-shaped pendant cut in two with a zig-zag line bearing the words "The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another" (Genesis Genesis 31:49). This is worn to signify the bond. Additionally, the word "mizpah" can often be found on headstones in cemeteries and on other memorials. From Genesis 31:49 of the Bible:
And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
Mizpah was a city in the Kingdom of Judah, in the district of the Shephelah or maritime lowland.
Eusebius and Jerome put the territory of Eleutheropolis near the road to Elia.
Usage examples of "mizpah".
If Fernao and Penda could get to Mizpah, the closest Lagoan-ruled town, they would be safe.
Fernao felt about Mizpah, save only that he did not believe in stretching metaphor far enough to compare the land of the Ice People with anything having to do with heat.
Even if Mizpah did lie under Lagoan domination, it was even smaller and slower and duller than Heshbon, something the mage would have had a hard time imagining had he not seen it with his own eyes.
Here at Mizpah, days remained above freezing and nights, as yet, seldom dropped far below it.
The small force of garrison troops Lagoas maintained in Mizpah paraded across it in uniform tunics and kilts - with heavy wool leggings beneath the kilts as a concession to the climate.
But disguises were of less use here in Mizpah than they would have been in crowded Patras or Setubal.
Had the Yaninans put their full effort into the attack on the Lagoan towns at the edge of the land of the Ice People, Mizpah would have fallen long since.
Because of that, the Lagoans and their nomad allies still had a grip on Mizpah, even if the Yaninans finally had fought their way into egg-tosser range, which meant the outpost would not hold much longer.
But the Lagoans had the chance to salvage some of what they thought important from Mizpah before it fell.
But I wager plenty of other people in Mizpah would sooner we were coming for them.
When others went into exile he remained for a while in Mizpah, a modest town north of Jerusalem.
To fire paired broadsides into the Federation base as the ship descended, Blakey must have rolled the Mizpah on her axis, then counter-rolled.