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Lexicon :: Strong's H1008 - bêṯ-'ēl

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בֵּית־אֵל
Transliteration
bêṯ-'ēl
Pronunciation
bayth-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 241a

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs: בית-אל.

Strong’s Definitions

בֵּית־אֵל Bêyth-ʼÊl, bayth-ale'; from H1004 and H410; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine:—Beth-el.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 70x

The KJV translates Strong's H1008 in the following manner: Bethel (66x), non translated variable (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 70x
The KJV translates Strong's H1008 in the following manner: Bethel (66x), non translated variable (4x).
  1. Bethel = "house of God"

    1. ancient place and seat of worship in Ephraim on border of Benjamin, identified with Luz (former name)

    2. a place in south country of Judah, not far from Beersheba and Ziklag

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בֵּית־אֵל Bêyth-ʼÊl, bayth-ale'; from H1004 and H410; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine:—Beth-el.
STRONGS H1008: Abbreviations
בֵּֽיתְאֵל 71 proper name, of a location Bethel (so read, not בֵּית־אֵל as Joshua 7:2 + according to see d. H; compare Baer Genesis 12:8; house of God, or house of El) —
1. ancient place and seat of worship in Ephraim on border of Benjamin, identification with Luz (former name) Genesis 28:19; Genesis 35:6; Joshua 18:13; Judges 1:23; apparently distinguished from Luz Joshua 16:2 (yet compare Di); name connected with vision of Jacob when journeying to Paddan-Aram (JE) Genesis 28:19; Genesis 35:7 (where אֵל ֵֽֽֽבּיתְאֵל, but Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate Ol strike out אֵל; Di maintains); compare Hosea 12:5; when journeying from P.-A. Genesis 35:15 (P); name apparently given first to a stone (Genesis 28:18; 35:14) compare WeSkizzen iii. 70; הַר ֵֽֽֽבּיתְאֵל 1 Samuel 13:2; later important place of worship 1 Samuel 10:3 עָלָה אֶ־ל הָאֱלֹהִים בֵּיתְאֵל; abode of prophet 1 Kings 13:11; 2 Kings 2:3; Jeroboam set up one of the golden calves at Bethel 1 Kings 12:29f. compare also 1 Kings 13:1f; 2 Kings 10:29; 2 Kings 23:15; Jeremiah 48:13 see further 2 Kings 17:28; 2 Kings 23:15 Th proposes on internal grounds, בֵּית אַל house of nothingness, or אָלָה בּ׳ house of execration; אָלָה בּ׳ also RenHist. iii. 185; in prophets Amos 3:14; Amos 4:4; Amos 5:5 (twice in verse); Amos 5:6; Amos 7:10, 13; Hosea 10:15; note especially Amos 5:5 ביתאל יִהְיֶה לְאָ֑וֶן, & בֵּית אָוֶן (house of iniquity) as substitute for ביתאל Hosea 4:15; Hosea 5:8; Hosea 10:5 (עֶגְלוֺת בית און); — modern Beitîn RobBR i. 448 f. GuérinJudée iii. 14-27 compare BdPal 215 Surveyii. 305.
2. place in south country of Judah, not far from Beersheba & Ziklag 1 Samuel 30:27 compare We Dr; = MT כסיל Joshua 15:30 (text error; Greek Version of the LXX Βαιθηλ); also בְּתוּל Joshua 19:4, בְּתוּאֵל 1 Chronicles 4:30.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

12:8; 28:18; 28:19; 28:19; 35:6; 35:7; 35:14; 35:15

Joshua

7:2; 15:30; 16:2; 18:13; 19:4

Judges

1:23

1 Samuel

10:3; 13:2; 30:27

1 Kings

12:29; 13:1; 13:11

2 Kings

2:3; 10:29; 17:28; 23:15; 23:15

1 Chronicles

4:30

Jeremiah

48:13

Hosea

4:15; 5:8; 10:5; 10:15; 12:5

Amos

3:14; 4:4; 5:5; 5:5; 5:6; 7:10; 7:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1008 matches the Hebrew בֵּית־אֵל (bêṯ-'ēl),
which occurs 144 times in 65 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 12:8–2Ki 23:19)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 -

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to the LORD there, and he called on the name of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 -

He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 -

and named the place Bethel,[fn] though previously the city was named Luz.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 -

“I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to me. Get up, leave this land, and return to your native land.’ ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 -

God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:3 -

“We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:6 -

So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 -

Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel[fn] because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8 -

Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah,[fn] died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:15 -

Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 -

They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 -

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and scout the land.” So the men went up and scouted Ai.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 -

So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the ambush site and waited between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But he spent that night with the troops.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 -

Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 -

Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city exposed while they pursued Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9 -
the king of Jericho one
the king of Ai, which is next to Bethel one
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:16 -
the king of Makkedah one
the king of Bethel one
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1 -

The allotment for the descendants of Joseph went from the Jordan at Jericho to the Waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness ascending from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.

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From Bethel it went to Luz and proceeded to the border of the Archites by Ataroth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:13 -

From there the border went toward Luz, to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel); it then went down by Ataroth-addar, over the hill south of Lower Beth-horon.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:22 -

Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:22 -

The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the LORD was with them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23 -

They sent spies to Bethel (the town was formerly named Luz).

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 -

She would sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to settle disputes.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 -

They set out, went to Bethel, and inquired of God. The Israelites asked, “Who is to go first to fight for us against the Benjaminites? ”

And the LORD answered, “Judah will be first.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:26 -

The whole Israelite army went to Bethel where they wept and sat before the LORD. They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31 -

Then the Benjaminites came out against the troops and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the troops as before, killing about thirty men of Israel on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah through the open country.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2 -

So the people went to Bethel and sat there before God until evening. They wept loudly and bitterly,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 -

They also said, “Look, there’s an annual festival to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:16 -

Every year he would go on a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah and would judge Israel at all these locations.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3 -

“You will proceed from there until you come to the oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one bringing three goats, one bringing three loaves of bread, and one bringing a clay jar of wine.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 -

He chose three thousand men from Israel for himself: two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in Bethel’s hill country, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the troops away, each to his own tent.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:27 -

He sent gifts[fn] to those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negev, and in Jattir;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:29 -

He set up one in Bethel, and put the other in Dan.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 -

Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah. He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had made. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had made.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:33 -

He offered sacrifices on[fn] the altar he had set up in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. He chose this month on his own. He made a festival for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:1 -

A man of God came, however, from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD while Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 -

When the king heard the message that the man of God had cried out against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar and said, “Arrest him! ” But the hand he stretched out against him withered, and he could not pull it back to himself.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:10 -

So he went another way; he did not go back by the way he had come to Bethel.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 -

Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel. His son[fn] came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. His sons also told their father the words that he had spoken to the king.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32 -

“for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines of the high places in the cities of Samaria is certain to happen.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:2 -

and Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; the LORD is sending me on to Bethel.”

But Elisha replied, “As the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:3 -

Then the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today? ”

He said, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:23 -

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking up the path, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, baldy! Go up, baldy! ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 -

but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit ​— ​worshiping the gold calves that were in Bethel and Dan.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:28 -

So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should fear the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 -

Then the king commanded the high priest Hilkiah and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the LORD’s sanctuary all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the stars in the sky. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 -

He even tore down the altar at Bethel and the high place that had been made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 -

Then he said, “What is this monument I see? ”

The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar at Bethel.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 -

Josiah also removed all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to anger the LORD. Josiah did the same things to them that he had done at Bethel.


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