1032

bēt ḥōrōn בֵּית חוֹרֹן ‘Beth-horon’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from bēt בֵּית ‘between / house’ and ḥōr חֹר ‘hole’
Roots: בית חור חור

bēt ḥōrōn pr n loc
Beth-horon = "house of hollowness"
1) two towns in Ephraim
 1a) Upper Beth-horon-town on the mountains of Ephraim
 1b) Lower Beth-horon-town located 800 feet (245 m) lower than Upper Beth-horon

Mentioned in Joshua 10:11, 16:3, 18:13, 18:14, 16:5, 21:22, 10:10 1 Samuel 13:18 1 Kings 9:17 1 Chronicles 7:24, 6:53 2 Chronicles 25:13, 8:5

2014 — 2024 Institute for Biblical Content. Biblical Hebrew for linguists: a multilingual analytical biblical Hebrew lexicon.
Implemented as part of the research project at the ENS by M.Seveleu-Dubrovnik, PhD.
About | Listen audio | In other languages: .