misrephoth-maim Summary and Overview

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.

(the flew of waters), a place in northern Israel. Dr. 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 has the disadvantage of being very far from Sidon. May it not rather be the place with which we are familiar in the later history as Zarephat, near Sidon?

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.