Bible Dictionary · M
Mizar
Smallness, a summit on the eastern ridge of Lebanon, near which David lay after escaping from Absalom (Ps 42:6). It may, perhaps, be the present Jebel Ajlun, thus named, “the little”, in contrast with the greater elevation of Lebanon and Hermon.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Psalms 42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
