Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
refuge
Usage: refuge, asylum
Miqlat means “refuge” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4733 — stereoma (“stedfastness”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4733 מִקלָט (miqlat) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. miqlat (mik-lawt') n-m. 1. an asylum (as a receptacle) [from H7038 in the sense of taking in] It has 20 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include refuge. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
miqlat (mik-lawt') n-m. 1. an asylum (as a receptacle) [from H7038 in the sense of taking in] KJV: refuge. Root(s): H7038
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refuge
Usage: refuge, asylum
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render miqlat, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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20 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.
Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.
And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4733.
And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.
Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.
And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.
Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;
And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,
For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,
And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.
And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4733, grouped by book.
Miqlat (Strong's H4733) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "refuge". miqlat (mik-lawt') n-m. 1. an asylum (as a receptacle) [from H7038 in the sense of taking in]
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H4733 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4733 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as refuge. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.