HebrewH1052Noun

בֵּית שְׁאָן

bet she.an

8Occurrences
H1052Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Beth-Shean or Beth-Shan, a place in Palestine

or בֵּית שָׁן; from H1004 (בַּיִת) and H7599 (שָׁאַן); house of ease;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Beth-shean or Beth-Shan = "house of ease" a place in Manasseh, west of the Jordan

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

בֵּית שְׁאָן appears 8 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
2
Joshua
2
1 Chronicles
1
1 Kings
1
2 Samuel
1
Judges
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 7:29BSB

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.

1 Kings 4:12BSB

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;

1 Samuel 31:10BSB

They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

1 Samuel 31:12BSB

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.

2 Samuel 21:12BSB

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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