בֵּית שְׁאָן
bet she.an
“Beth-shean”
Definition
Beth-Shean or Beth-Shan, a place in Palestine
or בֵּית שָׁן; from H1004 (בַּיִת) and H7599 (שָׁאַן); house of ease;
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun
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Occurrences
בֵּית שְׁאָן appears 8 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And along the borders of Manasseh were Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, together with their villages. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.
Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;
They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan.When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.
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