Midvash

בְּאֵרוֹתBᵉʼêrôwth

proper name [of a location]: city of the Gibeonites (2 Samuel 4:2; Ezra 2:23; Joshua 9:17; Joshua 18:25; Ezra 2:25)

Pronunciation: be-ay-rohth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H881

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 10:6 (The people of Israel set out from the wells of the people of Jaakan and traveled to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried. His son Eleazar ministered as high priest in his place.
  • Joshua 9:17 The Israelites set out at once to investigate and reached their towns in three days. The names of these towns were Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
  • Joshua 18:25 Also Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
  • 2 Samuel 4:2 Now there were two brothers, Baanah and Recab, who were captains of Ishbosheth’s raiding parties. They were sons of Rimmon, a member of the tribe of Benjamin who lived in Beeroth. The town of Beeroth is now part of Benjamin’s territory
  • Ezra 2:25 The people of Kiriath-jearim, Kephirah, and Beeroth 743
  • Nehemiah 7:29 The people of Kiriath-jearim, Kephirah, and Beeroth 743

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).