Beeshterah
A Levitical city, in Manasseh beyond the Jordan, Jos 21:27. It is also called Ashtaroth, 1Ch 6:71, and is perhaps a contraction of Beth-Ashtaroth.
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Beetle
In Le 11:22, a species of locust.
Beeves
Cattle, including the larger antelopes, Le 22:19. It is the old plural of beef.
Behemoth
A huge amphibious animal, described in Job 40:15-24. Commentators are now generally agreed that it is the hippopotamus, or river horse, which is found only in the Nile and other...
Bekah
A half-shekel; in weight, five pennyweights; in money, about twenty- five cents. This sum each Israelite over twenty years old was to pay as a poll tax for the temple service, E...
Bel
The chief idol of the Babylonians.
Bela
Ge 14:2.
Belial
Worthlessness, always so used in a moral sense. A man or son of Belial is a wicked, worthless man; one resolved to endure no subjection; a rebel; a disobedient, uncontrollable f...
Belshazzar
Prince of Bel, the Chaldean name given to Daniel at the court of Nebuchadnezzar, Da 1:7 4:8.
Ben-Hadad
1. A king of Dama scene Syria, hired by Asa king of Judah to make war upon Baasha king of Israel, 1Ki 15:18-22. He ravaged a large part of Naphtali.2. Son and successor of the p...
Benaiah
Son of Jehoiada, and commander of David’s bodyguards. Several instances of his rare bravery are recorded, 2Sa 8:182Sa 23:20-23. He adhered to Solomon when some favored the prete...
Benjamin
The youngest son of Jacob and Rachel, Ge 35:16-18. Rachel died immediately after he was born, and with her last breath named him Ben-oni, the son of my sorrow; but Jacob called ...
Bera
King of Sodom in the days of Abraham, Ge 14:1-24.
Berachah
Blessing, a beautiful valley between Tekoa and Etham, where Jehoshaphat and all Judah held a thanksgiving for their miraculous victory over the Moabites and Ammonites, 2Ch 20:26.
Berea
A city of Macedonia, not far from Pella towards the southwest, and near Mount Bermius. It was afterwards called Irenopolis, and is now called by the Turks, Boor; by others, Cara...
Bernice, Or Berenice
Eldest daughter of king Herod Agrippa I, and sister to the younger Agrippa, Ac 25:13,23; 26:30. She was first married to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis; and after his death, i...
Berothah, Berothai
A Syrian town, conquered by David, 2Sa 8:8; 1Ch 18:8; Eze 47:16. Some find it in the modern Beyrout; but aside from the similarity of the name, the indications point to an inlan...
Beryl
The name of a precious stone of a sea-green color, found principally in India, Da 10:6Re 21:20.
Besom
A broom or brush for sweeping. Before "the besom of destruction," the hosts of God’s enemies are like the dust of the floor, Isa 14:23.
Besor
A brook flowing into the Mediterranean five miles south of Gaza. A part of David’s troops in pursuit of Amalekites halted there, 1Sa 30:9-21. The stream dries up in spring.
Betah, Or Tibhath
A city of Syria-Zobath, taken by David, 2Sa 8:8; 1Ch 18:8; perhaps the modern Taibeh, between Aleppo and Tadmor.
Beth
House, forms a part of many compounds names of places, and sometimes means the place or dwelling; and at others the temple. This word becomes Beit in modern Arabic.
Beth-Abara
Place of the ford, a town on the east bank of the Jordan, where John baptized, Joh 1:28. It was perhaps the same as Beth-barah, Jud 7:24; but the true site is unknown. Many of t...
Beth-Arbel
Probably Arbela, now Irbid. One place of this name lay twenty-five miles southeast of the sea of Galilee. Another was in Galilee, near Magdala. Here were some large and almost i...
Beth-Aven
A place and desert near Bethel on the east, Jos 7:2; 18:12; 1Sa 13:5; 14:23. It seems to be reproachfully used at times for Bethel itself, after the golden calves were there set...
Beth-Car
In Dan, near Mizpeh; noted for the defeat of the Philistines, and the Eben-Ezer set up by Samuel, 1Sa 7:11.
Beth-Haccerem
Conjectured to be the Frank mountain, between Tekoa and Bethlehem, Ne 3:14; Jer 6:1. This is a solitary conical hill, on which the crusaders had a strong fortress.