H1032

בית־חורון

בית־חורון

bayatha-chaawarawan

Proper locative noun · From בית (H1004) and חור (H2356)

From H1004 and H2356; house of hollowness; Beth-Choron, the name of two adjoining places in Palestine:—Beth-horon.

Outline

Beth-horon = "house of hollowness"

two towns in Ephraim

Upper Beth-horon - town on the mountains of Ephraim
Lower Beth-horon - town located 800 feet (245 m) lower than Upper Beth-horon

Usages

Joshua 10:10

And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.

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Joshua 10:11

And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

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Joshua 16:3

And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.

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Joshua 16:5

¶ And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper;

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Joshua 18:13

And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth-el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.

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Joshua 18:14

And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

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Joshua 21:22

And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs; four cities.

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1 Samuel 13:18

And another company turned the way to Beth-horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

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1 Kings 9:17

And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,

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1 Chronicles 6:68

And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs,

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1 Chronicles 7:24

(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)

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2 Chronicles 8:5

Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

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2 Chronicles 25:13

¶ But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.

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