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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)
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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

H1008

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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - And he departed thence to the mountain eastward of Bæthel, and there he pitched his tent in Bæthel near the sea, and Aggai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And he went to the place whence he came, into the wilderness as far as Bæthel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Bæthel and Aggai,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - And he called the name of that place, the House of God; and the name of the city before was Ulam-luz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am God that appeared to thee in the place of God, where thou anointedst a pillar to me, and vowedst to me there a vow; now then arise and depart out of this land, depart into the land of thy nativity, and I will be with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 - And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to the place, Bæthel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God that appeared to thee, when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:3 - And let us rise and go up to Bæthel, and let us there make an altar to God who hearkened to me in the day of calamity, who was with me, and preserved me throughout in the journey, by which I went.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:6 - And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, which is Bæthel, he and all the people that were with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 - And he built there an altar, and called the name of the place Bæthel; for there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8 - And Deborrha, Rebecca's nurse, died, and was buried below Bæthel under the oak; and Jacob called its name, The Oak of Mourning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:15 - And Jacob called the name of the place in which God spoke with him, Bæthel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 - [fn][And Jacob removed from Bæthel, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gader,] and it came to pass when he drew nigh to Chabratha, to enter into Ephratha, Rachel travailed; and in her travail she was in hard labour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 - And Joshua sent men to Gai, which is by Bæthel, saying, Spy out Gai: and the men went up and spied Gai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 - And Joshua sent them, and they went to lie in ambush; and they lay between Bæthel and Gai, westward of Gai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - And the ambuscade was on the west side of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - There was no one left in Gai who did not pursue after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9 - The king of Jericho, and the king of Gai, which is near Bæthel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:16 - the king of Elath,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1 - And the borders of the children of Joseph were from Jordan by Jericho eastward; and they will go up from Jericho to the hill country, to the wilderness, to Bæthel Luza.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:2 - And they will go out to Bæthel, and will proceed to the borders of Achatarothi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:13 - And the borders will go forth thence to Luz, behind Luz, from the south of it; this is Bæthel: and the borders shall go down to Maatarob Orech, to the hill country, which is southward of Bæthoron the lower.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:22 - and Bæthabara, and Sara, and Besana,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:22 - And the sons of Joseph, they also went up to Bæthel; and the Lord was with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23 - And they encamped and surveyed Bæthel: and the name of the city before was Luza.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - And she sat under the palm-tree of Debbora between Rama and Bæthel in mount Ephraim; and the children of Israel went up to her for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 - And they arose and went up to Bæthel, and enquired of God: and the children of Israel said, Who shall go up for us first to fight with the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Juda shall go up first as leader.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:26 - And the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bæthel; and they wept, and sat there before the Lord; and they fasted on that day until evening, and offered whole-burnt-offerings and [fn]perfect sacrifices, before the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31 - And the children of Benjamin went out to meet the people, and [fn]were all drawn out of the city, and began to smite and slay the people as before in the roads, [fn]whereof one goes up to Bæthel, and one to Gabaa in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2 - And the people came to Bæthel, and sat there until evening before God: and they lifted up their voice and wept with a great weeping;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - And they said, Lo! now there is a feast of the Lord [fn]from year to year in Selom, which is on the north of Bæthel, eastward on the way that goes up from Bæthel to Sychem, and from the south of Lebona.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:16 - And he went year by year, and went round Bæthel, and Galgala, and Massephath; and he judged Israel in all these consecrated places.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3 - And thou shalt depart thence, and shalt go beyond that as far as the oak of Thabor, and thou shalt find there three men going up to God to Bæthel, one bearing three kids, and another bearing three vessels of bread, and another bearing a bottle of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 - And Saul chooses for himself three thousand men of the men of Israel: and there were with Saul two thousand who were in Machmas, and in mount Bæthel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and he sent the rest of the people every man to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:27 - to those in [fn]Bæthsur, and to those in Rama of the south, and to those in Gethor.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:29 - And he put one in Bethel, and he [fn]put the other in Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - And Jeroboam appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, according to the feast in the land of Juda;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:33 - and went up to the altar which he made in Bæthel to sacrifice to the heifers which he made, and he placed in Bæthel the priests of the high places which he had made. And he went up to the altar which he had made, on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, at the feast which he devised out of his own heart; and he made a feast to the children of Israel, and went up to the altar to sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:1 - And, behold, there came a man of God out of Juda by the word of the Lord to Bæthel, and Jeroboam stood at the altar to sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - And it came to pass when king Jeroboam heard the words of the man of God who called on the altar that was in Bæthel, that the king stretched forth his hand from the altar, saying, Take hold of him. And, behold, his hand, which he stretched forth against him, withered, and he could not draw it back to himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:10 - So he departed by another way, and returned not by the way by which he came to Bæthel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 - And there dwelt an old prophet in Bæthel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God did on that day in Bæthel, and the words which he spoke to the king: and [fn]they turned the face of their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32 - For the word will surely come to pass which he spoke by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bæthel, and against the high houses in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:2 - And Eliu said to Elisaie, Stay here, I pray thee; for God has sent me to Bæthel. And Elisaie said, [fn]As the Lord lives and thy soul lives, I will not leave thee; so they came to Bæthel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:3 - And the sons of the prophets who were in Bæthel came to Elisaie, and said to him, [fn]Dost thou know, that the Lord this day [fn]is going to take thy lord away from thy head? And he said, Yea, I know it; be silent.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:23 - And he went up thence to Bæthel: and as he was going up by the way there came up also little children from the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, baldhead, go up.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 - Nevertheless Ju departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin: these were the golden heifers in Bæthel and in Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:28 - And they brought one of the priests whom they had removed from Samaria, and he settled in Bæthel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - And the king commanded Chelcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and them that kept the door, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the [fn]fields of Kedron, and [fn]took the ashes of them to Bæthel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Also the high altar in Bæthel, which Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that high altar he tore down, and broke in pieces the stones of it, and reduced it to powder, and burnt the grove.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 - And he said, What is that mound which I see? And the men of the city said to him, It is the grave of the man of God that came out of Juda, and uttered these imprecations which he imprecated upon the altar of Bæthel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Moreover Josias removed all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel made to provoke the Lord, and did to them all that he did in Bæthel.

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