- Beeroth
Beeroth may refer to:
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Beeroth (north) , a town nearJerusalem named in Joshua 9:17, 18:25; 2Samuel 4:2; Ezra 2:25; Nehemiah 7:29*
Beeroth (south) , a town named inDeuteronomy 10:6*
Beirut , a town inLebanon
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BEEROTH — (Heb. בְּאֵרוֹת; wells ), one of the Gibeonite cities mentioned as part of a confederacy together with Gibeon, Chephirah, and Kiriath Jearim (Josh. 9:17). Beeroth is listed with the cities of Benjamin (Josh. 18:25); part of its population had… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Beeroth — (d.i. Brunnen, a. Geogr.), Stadt in Palästina, früher zu Gibeon, später zum Stamme Benjamin gehörig … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Beeroth — Wells, one of the four cities of the Hivites which entered by fraud into a league with Joshua. It belonged to Benjamin (Josh. 18:25). It has by some been identified with el Bireh on the way to Nablus, 10 miles north of Jerusalem … Easton's Bible Dictionary
Beeroth — A Benjaminite city (Josh. 9:17) where the murderers of Ishbaal, son of Saul, lived (2 Sam. 4:2–3), probably about 15 km. (9 miles) north of Jerusalem … Dictionary of the Bible
Beeroth of the children of Jaakan — (Deut. 10:6). The same as Bene jaakan (Num. 33:31) … Easton's Bible Dictionary
Chephirah — is one of four towns named in Joshua 9:17 along with Gibeon, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim. The context is a story explaining a peace treaty between the Israelites and the natives of this region. Chephirah appears again in 18:26 as one of the towns … Wikipedia
Rimmon — (Hebrew pomegranate ) is the proper name for a number of people or objects in the Hebrew Bible: Torah with rimmonim A man of Beeroth (2 Samuel 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite cities. (See Joshua 9:17.) A Syrian cult image, mentioned only in 2… … Wikipedia
List of Biblical names — This is a list of names from the Bible, mainly taken from the 19th century public domain resource: : Hitchcock s New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible by Roswell D. Hitchcock, New York: A. J. Johnson, 1874, c1869.Each name is given with its … Wikipedia
Hivites — The Hivites were one of the sons of Canaan according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10. We know of the Hivites primarily as one of seven main people groups living in the land of Canaan upon the arrival of the Hebrews in the book of Joshua.… … Wikipedia
List of traditional Hebrew place names — This is a list of traditional Hebrew place names. This list includes:*Places involved in the history (and beliefs) of Canaanite religion, Abrahamic religion and Hebrew culture and the (pre Modern or directly associated Modern) Hebrew (and… … Wikipedia
