בֵּית חוֹרֹן

bet cho.ron · Beth-horon

Hebrew · Strong's H1032 · Noun · Sounds like: bayth kho-rone' · 28 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • Beth-horon H1032G 14
  • (Lower) Beth-horon H1032I · a Name of 10
  • (Upper) Beth-horon H1032H 4

Strong's dictionary

from בַּיִת and חוֹר; house of hollowness; Beth-Choron, the name of two adjoining places in Palestine; Beth-horon.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
בֵּית חוֹרֹן n.pr.loc. two cities in Ephraim, lower & upper B.H. (place of a hole or hollow (?), perh. fr. a wady betw. the two, or near by);—cf. הַחֹרֹנִי adj.gent. only of Sanballat

Every occurrence

  1. Joshua 10:10 בֵית־ veit- · A person, place or thing

    And Jehovah discomfited them before Israel, and he slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.

  2. Joshua 10:10 חוֹרֹ֔ן cho.Ron · A person, place or thing

    And Jehovah discomfited them before Israel, and he slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.

  3. Joshua 10:11 בֵּית־ beit- · A person, place or thing

    And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

  4. Joshua 10:11 חוֹרֹן֙ cho.Ron · A person, place or thing

    And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

  5. Joshua 16:3 בֵּית־ beit- · A person, place or thing

    and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, unto the border of Beth-horon the nether, even unto Gezer; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.

  6. Joshua 16:3 חוֹרֹ֛ן cho.Ron · A person, place or thing

    and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, unto the border of Beth-horon the nether, even unto Gezer; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.

  7. Joshua 16:5 בֵּ֥ית beit · A person, place or thing

    And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: the border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper;

  8. Joshua 16:5 חוֹרֹ֖ן cho.Ron · A person, place or thing

    And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: the border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper;

  9. Joshua 18:13 לְבֵית־ le.veit- · A person, place or thing

    And the border passed along from thence to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Beth-el), southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain that lieth on the south of Beth-horon the nether.

  10. Joshua 18:13 חֹר֖וֹן cho.Ron · A person, place or thing

    And the border passed along from thence to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Beth-el), southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain that lieth on the south of Beth-horon the nether.

  11. Joshua 18:14 בֵית־ veit- · A person, place or thing

    And the border extended thence, and turned about on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kiriath-baal (the same is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

  12. Joshua 18:14 חֹרוֹן֮ cho.rOn · A person, place or thing

    And the border extended thence, and turned about on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kiriath-baal (the same is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

  13. Joshua 21:22 בֵּ֥ית beit · A person, place or thing

    and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs; four cities.

  14. Joshua 21:22 חוֹרֹ֖ן cho.Ron · A person, place or thing

    and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs; four cities.

  15. 1 Samuel 13:18 בֵּ֣ית beit · A person, place or thing

    and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looketh down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

  16. 1 Samuel 13:18 חֹר֑וֹן cho.Ron · A person, place or thing

    and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looketh down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

  17. 1 Kings 9:17 בֵּ֥ית beit · A person, place or thing

    And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,

  18. 1 Kings 9:17 חֹרֹ֖ן cho.Ron · A person, place or thing

    And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,

  19. 1 Chronicles 6:68 בֵּ֥ית beit · A person, place or thing

    and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs,

  20. 1 Chronicles 6:68 חוֹר֖וֹן cho.Ron · A person, place or thing

    and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs,

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