| | Lexicon miqlat: refuge, asylumOriginal Word: מִקְלָטPart of Speech: Noun MasculineTransliteration: miqlatPhonetic Spelling: (mik-lawt')Short Definition: refuge NAS Exhaustive ConcordanceWord Origin from an unused wordDefinition refuge, asylumNASB Translation refuge (20). 
Brown-Driver-Briggsמִקְלָט  noun [masculine] refuge, asylum  (P Chronicles); — ׳עָרֵי מ asylum-cities Numbers 35:11 ,13,14, ׳עָרֵי הַמּ Numbers 35:6 ; Joshua 20:2 , so 1 Chronicles 6:42 ; 1 Chronicles 6:52  (but read ׳עִיר הַמּ  according to "" Joshua 21:13 ,21, so Be Kau Kit), ׳לְמ  (after הָיָה ) Numbers 35:12,15 ; Joshua 20:3 ; construct in phrase עִיר מִקְלַט הָרֹצֵחַ Joshua 21:13 ,21,27,32,38 (Gi; Joshua 21:36  van d. H. Baer); suffix of refugee, עִיר מִקְלָטוֺ Numbers 35:25 ,26,27,28,32. Strong's refuge  From qalat in the sense of taking in; an asylum (as a receptacle) -- refuge.  see HEBREW qalat  | 
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