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Misrephoth-Maim
Open directlyEaston's Bible Dictionary · 1897
Burning of waters, supposed to be salt-pans, or lime-kilns, or glass-factories, a place to which Joshua pursued a party of Canaanites after the defeat of Jabin (Josh. 11:8). It is identified with the ruin Musheirifeh, at the promontory of en-Nakhurah, some 11 miles north of Acre.
Scripture references
Hastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
MIS'REPHOTH-MAIM (burnings of water), a place in Northern Palestine. Josh 11:8; Josh 13:6. Thomson treats Misrephoth-maim as identical with a collection of springs called Ain-Musheirifeh, on the seashore, close under the Ras en-Nakhura; but this is far from Sidon. Conder suggests that it is identical with the present village Sarafeud. near Sidon.
Scripture references
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · 1869
hot waters
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
MIS'REPHOTH-MAIM (burnings of water), a place in Northern Palestine. Josh 11:8; Josh 13:6. Thomson treats Misrephoth-maim as identical with a collection of springs called Ain-Musheirifeh, on the seashore, close under the Ras en-Nakhura; but this is far from Sidon. Conder suggests that it is identical with the present village Sarafeud. near Sidon.