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•MIDWIFE The two midwives mentioned in Exodus 1:15 were probably the superintendents of the whole class.
•MIGDAL-EDAR tower of the flock, a place 2 miles south of Jerusalem, near the Bethlehem road (Genesis 35:21). (See EDAR.)
•MIGDAL-EL tower of God, a fortified city of Naphtali (Joshua 19:38), supposed by some to be identical with Magdala (q.v.).
•MIGDAL-GAD tower of fortune, a town in the plains of Judah, probably the modern el-Mejdel, a little to the north-east of Ascalon (Joshua 15:37).
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