בֵּית חוֹרוֹן
Bêyth Chôwrôwn · H1032 · Hebrew · proper noun · 28 occurrences
This name belongs to 4 places
Meanings
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Beth-Horon
A town with two locations, Upper Beth-Horon and Lower Beth-Horon, in the territory of Ephraim, assigned to the clan of Kohath of the tribe of Levi
ExamplesJoshua 10:10 And the LORD brought them into confusion before Israel, and He struck them down in a great defeat at Gibeon, and pursued them by the way of the ascent to Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
Joshua 10:11 And as they fled from Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, the LORD hurled large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.
Joshua 16:3 Then it went down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of lower Beth-horon even to Gezer, and it ended at the sea.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Locations003001010
- This is the name of a strategically important pass where Israel pursues the fleeing Amorite kings in Joshua 10:10-11, and again marks a boundary point for Ephraim in Joshua 16:3.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1032. Beth Choron חוֺרֹן בֵּית proper name, of a location Jos 10:10-11, also ׳בּ חֹרֹן…
Choron חוֺרֹן בֵּית proper name, of a location Jos 10:10-11, also ׳בּ חֹרֹן ׳בּ, חֹרוֺן, & in Chronicles ׳בּ חוֺרוֺן, two cities in Ephraim, lower & upper B.H. (place of a hole or hollow (?) חֹר, perhaps from a wady between the two, or near by; compare also מַעֲלֶה Jos 10:10, מוֺרַד Jos 10:11 Jos 10:1Macc 3:16; 3:24) 1Ch 7:24 וְאֶתהָֿעֶלְיוֺן הַתַּחְתּוֺן אֶתבּֿיתחֿוֺרוֺן; further,
a. ׳בּ ׳ח עֶלְיוֺן Jos 16:5; ׳בּ ׳ח הָעֶלְיוֺן2Ch 8:5.
b.1hour west from
a. ׳בּ ׳ח תַּחְתּוֺן Jos 16:3; Jos 18:13; 1Ki 9:17; ׳בּ ׳ח הַתַּחְתּוֺן2Ch 8:5; also Jos 10:10-11, Jos 18:14; probably also Jos 21:22; 1Sa 13:18; 1Ch 6:53; 2Ch 25:13; — modern Beit ±Ûr el-fôqa & et-ta—ta RobBR ii. 250 f. BdPal 21 Surveyiii. 86; — compare הַחֹרֹנִי
adjective, of a people Neh 2:10, Neh 2:19; Neh 13:28, only of Sanballat; also dual חֹרֹנַיִם Jos 10:10-11, ᵐ5 & 2Sa 13:34 ᵐ5 We Dr.
חָנָן בֵּית
proper name, of a location in Dan (Judah ? Philistine territory) 1Ki 4:9 (where read ׳וּב ׳ח see below II. אֵלוֺן p. 19); — modern Beit „anûn compare RobBR ii. 35.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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