Bible Dictionary

Beth-aram

House of the height; i.e., “mountain-house”, one of the towns of Gad, 3 miles east of Jordan, opposite Jericho (Josh. 13:27). Probably the same as Beth-haran in Num. 32:36. It was called by king Hero…

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

, “mountain-house”, one of the towns of Gad, 3 miles east of Jordan, opposite Jericho (Josh. 13:27). Probably the same as Beth-haran in Num. 32:36. It was called by king Herod, Julias, or Livias, after Livia, the wife of Augustus. It is now called Beit-haran.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

BETH-A'RAM (house of height), a town of Gad in the valley, Josh 13:27; perhaps same as Beth-haran. Num 32:36; Merrill locates it at er-Rama, on the Shittim plain.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

house of height