Beth-meon
BETH-ME'ON See Baal-meon.
Beth-nimrah
BETH-NIM'RAH (house of leopards), a fenced city east of the Jordan, Josh 13:27; Num 32:3, Eze 23:36; same as Nimrah, and the modern Nimrin, on the Jordan, above Jericho. Some would identify it also w…
Beth-palet
BETH-PA'LET (house of flight), a town in the south of Judah; same as Beth-phelet, Josh 15:27; Neh 11:26; either modern el-Kuseifeh, near Moladah, or el-Hora.
Beth-pazzez
BETH-PAZ'ZEZ (house of dispersion), in Issachar, Josh 19:21, west of the Sea of Galilee; possibly, but not probably, modern Beit-Jenu.
Beth-peor
House of Peor; i.e., “temple of Baal-peor”, a place in Moab, on the east of Jordan, opposite Jericho. It was in the tribe of Reuben (Josh. 13:20; Deut. 3:29; 4:46). In the “ravine” or valley over aga…
Beth-phage
House of the unripe fig, a village on the Mount of Olives, on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho (Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29), and very close to Bethany. It was the limit of a Sabbath-day’s jo…
Beth-phelet
BETH-PHE'LET . See Beth-palet .
Beth-rapha
house of health
Beth-rehob
BETH-RE'HOB (house of Rehoh), called Rehob, Num 13:21; 2 Sam 10:6, 1 Kgs 15:8; was near Laish, Jud 18:28; possibly Hunin, on the mountain west of the plain of Dan, and about 1000 feet above it.
Beth-shean
House of security or rest, a city which belonged to Manasseh (1 Chr. 7:29), on the west of Jordan. The bodies of Saul and his sons were fastened to its walls. In Solomon’s time it gave its name to a …
Beth-shemesh
House of the sun. (1.) A sacerdotal city in the tribe of Dan (Josh. 21:16; 1 Sam. 6:15), on the north border of Judah (Josh. 15:10). It was the scene of an encounter between Jehoash, king of Israel, …
Beth-tappuah
House of apples, a town of Judah, now Tuffuh, 5 miles west of Hebron (Josh. 15:53).
Beth-zur
house of a rock
Bethabara
House of the ford, a place on the east bank of the Jordan, where John was baptizing (John 1:28). It may be identical with Bethbarah, the ancient ford of Jordan of which the men of Ephraim took posses…
Bethanath
(house of echo or reply), one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali, named with Beth-shemesh, (Joshua 19:38) from neither of them were the Canaanites expelled. (Judges 1:33)).
Bethanoth
(house of echo), a town in the mountainous district of Judah, named with Halhul, Beth-zur and others in (Joshua 15:58) only.
Bethany
House of dates. (1.) The Revised Version in John 1:28 has this word instead of Bethabara, on the authority of the oldest manuscripts. It appears to have been the name of a place on the east of Jordan…
Betharabah
(house of the desert), one of the six cities of Judah which were situated down in the Arabah, the sunk valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea, (Joshua 15:61) on the north border of the tribe. It is also i…
Betharam
(house of the height), accurately BETH-HARAM, one of the towns of Gad on the east of Jordan, described as in “the valley,” (Joshua 13:27) and no doubt the same place as that named BETH-HARAN in (Numb…
Bethaven
(house of nothingness, i.e. of idols), a place on the mountains of Benjamin, east of Bethel, (Joshua 7:2; 18:12) and lying between that place and Michmash. (1 Samuel 13:5; 14:28) In (Hosea 4:15; 5:8;…
Bethbaalmaveth
(house of Azmaveth). Under this name is mentioned, in (Nehemiah 7:28) only, the town of Benjamin which is elsewhere called Azmaveth and BETH-SAMOS.
Bethbaalmeon
(house of Baalmeon), a place in the possessions of Reuben, on the downs (Authorized Version “plain”) east of the Jordan. (Joshua 13:17) At the Israelites’ first approach is name was BAAL-MEON, (Numbe…
Bethbarah
(house of the ford), named only in (Judges 7:24) It derived its chief interest in the possibility that its more modern representative may have been Beth-abara, where John baptized. It was probably th…
Bethbirei
(house of my creation), a town of Simeon, (1 Chronicles 4:31) which by comparison with the parallel list in (Joshua 19:6) appears to have had also the name Of BETH-LEBAOTH. It lay to the extreme sout…
Bethcar
(house of the lamb), a place named as the point to which the Israelites pursued the Philistines, (1 Samuel 7:11) and therefore west of Mizpeh.
Bethdagon
(house of Dagon).
Bethdiblathaim
(house of fig-cakes), a town of Moab, (Jeremiah 48:22) apparently the place elsewhere called ALMON-DIBLATHAIM.
Bethel
House of God. (1.) A place in Central Palestine, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem, at the head of the pass of Michmash and Ai. It was originally the royal Canaanite city of Luz (Gen. 28:19). The nam…
Bethelite
A designation of Hiel (q.v.), who rebuilt Jericho and experienced the curse pronounced long before (1 Kings 16:34).
Bethemek
(house of the valley), a place on or near the border of Asher, on the north side of which was the ravine of Jiphthah-el (Joshua 19:27)