Question 37: What is the meaning of “Mizpah”?

Answer:

Mizpah or Mizpeh was the name of several localities in Old Testament history. The word means "a watch-tower" and in literature the whole of the beautiful remark made by Laban to Jacob (Genesis 31:49) has been included in its meaning: "Elohiym watch between me and thee when we are absent one from the other."