Strong's #4733: miqlat (pronounced mik-lawt')

from 7038 in the sense of taking in; an asylum (as a receptacle):--refuge.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

miqlâṭ

1) refuge, asylum

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H7038 in the sense of taking in

Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

 

Numbers 35:6: "there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee"
Numbers 35:11: "you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth"
Numbers 35:12: "And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not,"
Numbers 35:13: "six cities shall ye have for refuge."
Numbers 35:14: "in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge."
Numbers 35:15: "six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner"
Numbers 35:25: "and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled:"
Numbers 35:26: "shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;"
Numbers 35:27: "him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill"
Numbers 35:28: "Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest:"
Numbers 35:32: "for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until"
Joshua 20:2: "Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you by the hand"
Joshua 20:3: "and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood."
Joshua 21:13: "her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,"
Joshua 21:21: "Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,"
Joshua 21:27: "in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beesh-terah"
Joshua 21:32: "with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammoth-dor with"
Joshua 21:38: "with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with"
1 Chronicles 6:57: "of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa,"
1 Chronicles 6:67: "And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim"