MISREPHOTH-MAIM mĭz’ rə foth mā’ əm (Heb. מִשְׂרְפֹ֣ות מַ֔יִם, perhaps: lime-burning at the water). A place in the vicinity of Sidon, mentioned in Joshua 11:8 in connection with Israel’s defeat of the kings of northern Canaan, and in Joshua 13:6 as one of the places still in the hands of the Canaanites. Scholars differ in regard to its identification. According to some it is perhaps Khirbet el-Musheirefeh, just S of the promontory known as “the Ladder of Tyre” (Râs en-Naqûra); according to others it is now called ’Ain Mesherfi, a collection of warm springs, near Râs en-Naqûra.