(Upper) Beth-horon
בֵּית חוֹרֹןStrong’s H1032bet choron (bet cho-ron)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bet choron is the Hebrew word usually translated “horon” and “beth”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.”
Meaning
- § Beth-horon = "house of hollowness"
- Beth-horon = "house of hollowness"
How it's translated
- horon 14
- beth 13
- of beth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 7
- 1 Chronicles 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 10:11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
- Joshua 16:3And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer; and the goings out thereof are at the sea.
- Joshua 16:5And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
- Joshua 18:13And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
- Joshua 18:14And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
- Joshua 21:22And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs; four cities.
Hebrew dictionary
בֵּית חוֹרֹן bet choron · Beth-horon
§ Beth-horon = "house of hollowness" 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
בֵּית חוֹרֹן bet choron · (Upper) Beth-horon
Beth-horon = "house of hollowness" Upper Beth-horon-town on the mountains of Ephraim Combined with el.yon (עֶלְיוֹן ", Upper" H5945)
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.