BEROTHITE, THE
(1 Chronicles 11:39) [BEEROTH OF THE CHILDREN OF JAAKAN]
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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BERYL
(tarshish) occurs in (Exodus 28:20) It is generally supposed that the tarshish derives its name from the place so called, in Spain. Beryl is a mineral of great hardness, and, wh...
BESAI
(sword). "Children of Besai" were among the Nethinim who returned to Judea with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:49; Nehemiah 7:52)
BESODEIAH
(n the secret of the Lord) father of one of the repairers of the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:6)
BESOM
a brush or broom of twigs for sweeping (Isaiah 14:23)
BESOR, THE BROOK
(cool), a torrent-bed or wady in the extreme south of Judah. (1 Samuel 30:9,10,21)
BETAH
(confidence), a city belonging to Hadadezer king of Zobah, mentioned with Berothai. (2 Samuel 8:8) In the parallel account, (1 Chronicles 18:8) the name is called Tibhath.
BETEN
(height), one of the cities on the border of the tribe of Asher. (Joshua 19:25)
BETH
the most general word for a house or habitation. It has the special meaning of a temple or house of worship Beth is more frequently employed in compound names of places than any...
BETHABARA
(house of the ford), a place beyond Jordan, in which according to the Received Text of the New Testament, John was baptizing. (John 1:28) If this reading be correct, Bethabara i...
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
In the Revised Version for BETHABARA, (John 1:28) where Jesus was baptized by John. It was probably an obscure village near Bethabara, and in time its name faded out and was rep...
BETHANY
(house of dates, or house of misery), a village which, scanty as are the notices of it contained in Scripture, is more intimately associated in our minds than perhaps any other ...
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 t...
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 nam...
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...
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...
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 baptiz...
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 l...
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).A city in the low country of Judah, (Joshua 15:41) and therefore not far from the Philistine territory.A town apparently near the coast, named as one of the lan...
BETHDIBLATHAIM
(house of fig-cakes), a town of Moab, (Jeremiah 48:22) apparently the place elsewhere called ALMON-DIBLATHAIM.
BETHEL
(the house of God) well known city and holy place of central Palestine, about 12 mlles north of Jerusalem. If we are to accept the precise definition of (Genesis 12:8) the name ...
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)
BETHER
(depth), The mountains of. (Solomon 2:17) There is no clue to guide us as to what mountains are intended here.