Lexicon Beth Choron: "place of a hollow," two adjoining cities in Palestine Original Word: בֵּיתPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Beth Choron Phonetic Spelling: (bayth kho-rone') Short Definition: Beth-horon NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom bayith and chorDefinition"place of a hollow," two adjoining cities in Pal. NASB TranslationBeth-horon (14).
Brown-Driver-Briggs בֵּית חוֺרֹן proper name, of a location Joshua 10:10,11, also חֹרוֺן ׳בּ, חֹרֹן ׳בּ, & in Chronicles חוֺרוֺן ׳בּ, 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 Joshua 10:10, מוֺרַד Joshua 10:11 1Macc 3:16; 3:24) 1 Chronicles 7:24 אֶתבּֿיתחֿוֺרוֺן הַתַּחְתּוֺן וְאֶתהָֿעֶלְיוֺן; further, a. עֶלְיוֺן ׳ח ׳בּ Joshua 16:5; הָעֶלְיוֺן ׳ח ׳בּ2Chronicles 8:5. b.1hour west from a. תַּחְתּוֺן ׳ח ׳בּ Joshua 16:3; Joshua 18:13; 1 Kings 9:17; הַתַּחְתּוֺן ׳ח ׳בּ2Chronicles 8:5; also Joshua 10:10,11; Joshua 18:14; probably also Joshua 21:22; 1 Samuel 13:18; 1 Chronicles 6:53; 2Chronicles 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; Nehemiah 13:28, only of Sanballat; also dual חֹרֹנַיִם Joshua 10:10,11 ᵐ5 & 2 Samuel 13:34 ᵐ5 We Dr. בֵּית חָנָן proper name, of a location in Dan (Judah ? Philistine territory) 1 Kings 4:9 (where read ׳ח ׳וּב see below II. אֵלוֺן p. 19); — modern Beit „anûn compare RobBR ii. 35.
Strong's 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 |
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