Beth-millo
בֵּית מִלּוֹאStrong’s H1037bet millo (bet mil-lo)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bet millo is the Hebrew word usually translated “millo”, “beth” and “from beth”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.”
Meaning
- § Beth-millo = "house of Millo" or "house of the rampart"
How it's translated
- millo 4
- beth 2
- and from beth 1
- beth- 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
- 2 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 9:20But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
- 2 Kings 12:20And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
Hebrew dictionary
בֵּית מִלּוֹא bet millo · Beth-millo
§ Beth-millo = "house of Millo" or "house of the rampart" a place near Shechem
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.