ramath-mizpeh Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
ramath-mizpeh in Easton's Bible Dictionary
the height of Mizpeh or of the watch-tower (Josh. 13:26), a place mentioned as one of the limits of Gad. There were two Mizpehs on the east of the Jordan. This was the Mizpeh where Jacob and Laban made a covenant, "Mizpeh of Gilead," called also Galeed and Jegar-sahadutha. It has been identified with the modern es-Salt, where the roads from Jericho and from Shechem to Damascus unite, about 25 miles east of the Jordan and 13 south of the Jabbok.
ramath-mizpeh in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(high place of the watch-tower). [RAMOTH-GILEAD]
ramath-mizpeh in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
RA'MATH-MIZ'PEH (height of the watch-tower), a frontier-town in Gad. Jos 13:26. Dr. Merrill identifies it with Kalat er Rabad, a ruin on Wady 'Ajlun, about 10 miles east of the Jordan and between the two seas.