בֵּית חוֹרֹן
bet cho.ron
“Beth-horon”
Definition
Beth-Choron, the name of two adjoining places in Palestine
from H1004 (בַּיִת) and H2356 (חוֹר); house of hollowness;
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
בֵּית חוֹרֹן appears 12 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, as well as Uzzen-sheerah.
another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans:The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east to Upper Beth-horon
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