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•MISHEAL (Joshua 19:26), a town of Asher, probably the same as Mishal.‌‌‌

•MISHMA hearing. (1.) One of the sons of Ishmael (Genesis 25:14), and founder of an Arab tribe.

(2.) A Simeonite (1 Chronicles 4:25, 26).

•MISHMANNAH fatness, one of the Gadite heroes who gathered to David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:10).

•MISREPHOTH-MAIM burning of waters, supposed to be salt-pans, or lime-kilns, or glass-factories, a place to which Joshua pursued a party of Canaanites after the defeat of Jabin (Joshua 11:8). It is identified with the ruin Musheirifeh, at the promontory of en-Nakhurah, some 11 miles north of Acre.

•MITE contraction of minute, from the Latin minutum, the translation of the Greek word lepton, the very smallest bronze of copper coin (Luke 12:59; 21:2). Two mites made one quadrans, i.e., the fourth part of a Roman as, which was in value nearly a halfpenny. (See FARTHING.)

•MITHCAH sweetness, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (Numbers 33:28, 29).

•MITHREDATH given by Mithra, or dedicated to Mithra, i.e., the sun, the Hebrew form of the Greek name Mithridates. (1.) The “treasurer” of King Cyrus (Ezra 1:8).

(2.) Ezra 4:7, a Persian officer in Samaria.

•MITRE (Hebrews mitsnepheth), something rolled round the head; the turban or head-dress of the high priest (Exodus 28:4, 37, 39; 29:6, etc.). In the Authorized Version of Ezekiel 21:26, this Hebrew word is rendered

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