Midvash

מִפְלֶצֶתmiphletseth

horrid thing, (thing to shudder at) (1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chronicles 15:16)

Pronunciation: mif-leh'-tseth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4656

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Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 15:13 He even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene Asherah pole. He cut down her obscene pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
  • 2 Chronicles 15:16 King Asa even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene Asherah pole. He cut down her obscene pole, broke it up, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).