בֵּית הָעֲרָבָהBêyth hâ-ʻĂrâbâh
proper name [of a location]: reckoned to Judah, to Benjamin, site unknown (Joshua 15:6; Joshua 15:61; Joshua 18:22; Joshua 18:18; 2 Samuel 23:31)
Pronunciation: bayth haw-ar-aw-baw · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1026
Same root
- בַּיִתbayith · H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- עֲרָבָהʻărâbâh · H6160a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
- עַרְבָתִיʻArbâthîy · H6164an Arbathite or inhabitant of (Beth-) Arabah
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Joshua 15:6 went up from there to Beth-hoglah, then proceeded north of Beth-arabah to the Stone of Bohan. (Bohan was Reuben’s son.)
- Joshua 15:61 In the wilderness there were the towns of Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,
- Joshua 18:22 Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).