Beth-hoglah
בֵּית חׇגְלָהStrong’s H1031bet choglah (bet chog-lah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bet choglah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hoglah” and “beth”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:”
Meaning
- § Beth-hoglah = "house of the partridge" or "place of partridge"
How it's translated
- hoglah 3
- beth 2
- and beth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 18:19And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.
- Joshua 18:21Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
Hebrew dictionary
בֵּית חׇגְלָה bet choglah · Beth-hoglah
§ Beth-hoglah = "house of the partridge" or "place of partridge" a place in Benjamin on the border with Judah
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “be” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BE, verb intransitive
substantive, participle present tense being; participle passive been.[The sense is to stand, remain or be fixed; hence to continue. This verb is defective, and its defects are supplied by verbs from other roots, as, is, was, were, which have no radical connection with be The case is the same with the substantive verb in most languages.]
- To be fixed; to exist; to have a real state or existence, for a longer or shorter time.“Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus” Philippians 2:5
- To be made to be; to become.
- To remain.
- To be present in a place.
All definitions
- To have a particular manner of being or happening; as, how is this affair? how was it? what were the circumstances?
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.