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Lexicon :: Strong's H4733 - miqlāṭ

Aa
מִקְלָט
Transliteration
miqlāṭ
Pronunciation
mik-lawt'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From קָלַט (H7038) in the sense of taking in
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2026a

Strong’s Definitions

מִקְלָט miqlâṭ, mik-lawt'; from H7038 in the sense of taking in; an asylum (as a receptacle):—refuge.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x

The KJV translates Strong's H4733 in the following manner: refuge (20x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
The KJV translates Strong's H4733 in the following manner: refuge (20x).

  1. refuge, asylum

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִקְלָט miqlâṭ, mik-lawt'; from H7038 in the sense of taking in; an asylum (as a receptacle):—refuge.
STRONGS H4733: Abbreviations
† מִקְלָט noun [masculine] refuge, asylum (P Chronicles); — עָרֵי מ׳ asylum-cities Numbers 35:11, 13, 14, עָרֵי הַמּ׳ Numbers 35:6; Joshua 20:2, so 1 Chronicles 6:42 [1 Chronicles 6:57]; 1 Chronicles 6:52 [1 Chronicles 6:67] (but read עִיר הַמּ׳ according to || Joshua 21:13, 21, so Be Kau Kit), לְמ׳ (after הָיָה) Numbers 35:12, 15; Joshua 20:3; construct in phrase עִיר מִקְלַט הָרֹצֵחַ Joshua 21:13, 21, 27, 32, 38 (Gi; v36 van d. H. Baer); suffix of refugee, עִיר מִקְלָטוֺ Numbers 35:25, 26, 27, 28, 32.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

35:6; 35:11; 35:12; 35:13; 35:14; 35:15; 35:25; 35:26; 35:27; 35:28; 35:32

Joshua

20:2; 20:3; 21:13; 21:13; 21:21; 21:21; 21:27; 21:32; 21:38

1 Chronicles

6:57; 6:67

H4733

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4733 matches the Hebrew מִקְלָט (miqlāṭ),
which occurs 20 times in 20 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:2 - Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3 - So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:13 - And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21 - And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 - And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32 - And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:38 - And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:57

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:57 - And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:67 - And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts,
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