Lexical Summary Beth Choron: "place of a hollow", two adjoining cities in Palestine Original Word: בֵּית חוֹרוֹןTransliteration: Beth Choron Phonetic Spelling: (bayth kho-rone') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: "place of a hollow", two adjoining cities in Palestine Meaning: Beth-horon -- "place of a hollow", two adjoining cities in Palestine Strong's Concordance Beth- horon From bayith and chowr; house of hollowness; Beth-Choron, the name of two adjoining places in Palestine -- Beth- horon. see HEBREW bayith see HEBREW chowr Brown-Driver-Briggs H1032. Beth Choron חוֺרֹן בֵּית proper name, of a location Joshua 10:10-11, also ׳בּ חֹרֹן ׳בּ, חֹרוֺן, & in Chronicles ׳בּ חוֺרוֺן, two cities in Ephraim, lower & upper B.H. (place of a hole or hollow (?) חֹר, perhaps from a wady between the two, or near by; compare also מַעֲלֶה 10:10, מוֺרַד 10:11 1Macc 3:16; 3:24) 1 Chronicles 7:24 וְאֶתהָֿעֶלְיוֺן הַתַּחְתּוֺן אֶתבּֿיתחֿוֺרוֺן; further, a. ׳בּ ׳ח עֶלְיוֺן Joshua 16:5; ׳בּ ׳ח הָעֶלְיוֺן2 Chronicles 8:5. b.1hour west from a. ׳בּ ׳ח תַּחְתּוֺן Joshua 16:3; 18:13; 1 Kings 9:17; ׳בּ ׳ח הַתַּחְתּוֺן2 Chronicles 8:5; also Joshua 10:10-11, 18:14; probably also 21:22; 1 Samuel 13:18; 1 Chronicles 6:53; 2 Chronicles 25:13; — modern Beit ±Ûr el-fôqa & et-ta—ta RobBR ii. 250 f. BdPal 21 Surveyiii. 86; — compare הַחֹרֹנִי adjective, of a people Nehemiah 2:10, 19; 13:28, only of Sanballat; also dual חֹרֹנַיִם Joshua 10:10-11, ᵐ5 & 2 Samuel 13:34 ᵐ5 We Dr. חָנָן בֵּית proper name, of a location in Dan (Judah ? Philistine territory) 1 Kings 4:9 (where read ׳וּב ׳ח see below II. אֵלוֺן p. 19); — modern Beit „anûn compare RobBR ii. 35. |
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