SPECULA. This Word signifies an Eminence, where a Centinel was placed to watch afar off. It is put for the Name of a Place, 2 Chron. xx. 24. Cum venisset ad Speculam, quæ respicit solitudinem. The Hebrew reads Misphah, or Mizpah of the Desart, and may stand for Mizpeh, a City of Benjamin, Josh. xviii. 26.
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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Specula,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/s/specula/.