Place · Mountain
Hill Mizar
Also known as Mount Mizar
Named in 1 verse, first in Psalms 42:6.
In the Bible
All 1 verse, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Psalms
- Psalms 42:6
O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon— even from Mount Mizar.
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
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.