Topic
Beth-arabah
4 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Joshua 15:61Easton · ISBE · Nave A city in the valley of the Dead Sea
In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,
- Joshua 18:18Easton · ISBE · Nave Called ARABAH
And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
- Joshua 18:22Easton · ISBE · Nave A city in the valley of the Dead Sea
And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
- Joshua 15:6ISBE · Nave A city in the valley of the Dead Sea
And the border went up to Beth-hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 3 references
House of the desert, one of the six cities of Judah, situated in the sunk valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea (Josh. 18:22). In Josh. 15:61 it is said to have been “in the wilderness.” It was afterwards included in the towns of Benjamin. It is called Arabah (Josh. 18:18).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 4 references
beth-ar'-a-ba (beth ha-`arabhah; Baitharaba, "place of the Arabah"):
(1) One of the 6 cities of Judah "in the wilderness" (Jos 15:61), on the borders of Benjamin and Judah (Jos 15:6; 18:18 Septuagint). "The wilderness of Judah" is the barren land West of the Dead Sea. Beth-arabah is not yet identified.
(2) One of the cities of Benjamin (Jos 18:22). Septuagint (Codex Vaticanus) reads Baithabara, and this may be correct. The names are early confounded.
See BETHABARA.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.