TBESH · H4733
מִקְלָט · miq.lat · refuge
refuge, asylum
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מִקְלָט (miq.lat) means “refuge” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: mik-lawt' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
מִקְלָט · miq.lat · refuge
refuge, asylum
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from H7038 (קָלַט) in the sense of taking in; an asylum (as a receptacle)
KJV glosses: refuge.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of refuge | 17 |
| as a refuge | 2 |
| refuge | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of refuge | 10 |
| of his refuge | 5 |
| for refuge | 2 |
| shall be a refuge | 1 |
| shall ye have for refuge | 1 |
| thither and they shall be your refuge | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 20 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
Read word by worddesignate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
Read word by wordYou are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
Read word by wordThe cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
Read word by wordSelect three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
Read word by wordThese six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
Read word by wordThe assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
Read word by wordBut if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
Read word by wordand the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,
Read word by wordbecause the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.
Read word by wordNor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
Read word by word“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
Read word by wordso that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
Read word by wordSo to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah,
Read word by wordthey were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,
Read word by wordThis is what the Levite clans of the Gershonites were given: From the half-tribe of Manasseh they were given Golan in Bashan, a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah—two cities, together with their pasturelands.
Read word by wordAnd from the tribe of Naphtali they were given Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Hammoth-dor, and Kartan—three cities, together with their pasturelands.
Read word by wordAnd from the tribe of Gad they were given Ramoth in Gilead, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim,
Read word by wordSo the descendants of Aaron were given Hebron (a city of refuge), Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 6.42
They were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 6.52
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