Mephaath:
(splendor height) city of the Reubenites, one of the towns independently an Heshhon (Joshua 13:18) lying in the district of the Mishor (compare verse Joshua 13:17 and Jeremiah 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 (Joshua 21:37; 1 Chronicles 6:79). Its site is uncertain.
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