- 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). - MIGDOL tower. (1.) A strongly-fortified place 12 miles from Pelusium,
in the north of Egypt (Jeremiah 44:1; 46:14). This word is rendered
“tower” in Ezekiel 29:10, but the margin correctly retains the name
Migdol, “from Migdol to Syene;” i.e., from Migdol in the north to Syene
in the south, in other words, the whole of Egypt.
(2.) A place mentioned in the passage of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:2;
Numbers 33:7, 8). It is probably to be identified with Bir Suweis, about 2
miles from Suez.
- MIGRON precipice or landslip, a place between Aiath and Michmash
(Isaiah 10:28). The town of the same name mentioned in 1 Samuel 14:2
was to the south of this. - MIKLOTH staves. (1.) An officer under Dodai, in the time of David and
Solomon (1 Chronicles 27:4).
(2.) A Benjamite (1 Chronicles 8:32; 9:37, 38).