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HebrewH1008Noun

בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל

bet-el

63Occurrences
H1008Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Beth-El, a place in Palestine

from H1004 (בַּיִת) and H410 (אֵל); house of God;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Bethel = "house of God" ancient place and seat of worship in Ephraim on border of Benjamin, identified with Luz (former name)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל appears 63 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
10
Joshua
10
2 Kings
9
1 Kings
8
Judges
8
Amos
6
1 Samuel
4
Nehemiah
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 7:28BSB

Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.

1 Samuel 7:16BSB

Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.

Amos 4:4BSB

“Go to Bethel and transgress;rebel even more at Gilgal!Bring your sacrifices every morning,your tithes every three days.

Genesis 35:6BSB

So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

Judges 4:5BSB

And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.