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Baal-meon
בַּ֫עַל מְעוֹן
- verses
- 6
- first named
- Numbers 32:3
- last named
- Ezekiel 25:9
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.68°N · 35.74°E
Ma‘in (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Baal-meon in the text
Baal-meon, also known as Beth-baal-meon, Beth-meon, or Beon, was a town originally inhabited by the Moabites. During the Israelite conquest of Canaan, the town was allotted to the tribe of Reuben (Numbers 32:38; Joshua 13:17). The Reubenites rebuilt the city and renamed it, possibly to remove its association with the Canaanite deity Baal (Numbers 32:38). However, the town later reverted to Moabite control, as evidenced by its mention in the prophecies against Moab (Jeremiah 48:23; Ezk.25.9). The town was located in the territory of the Moabites, east of the Dead Sea (Numbers 32:3). Baal-meon was likely situated near the border between Moab and Reuben's territory, as it was mentioned in the context of the Reubenite settlements (1Ch.5.8).
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Nebo3 events
- Moab2 events
- Dibon2 events
- Kiriathaim2 events
- LORD1 event
- Gilead1 event
- Bashan1 event
- Heshbon1 event
- Hermon Mount1 event
- Aroer1 event
- Jahaz1 event
- Sons Of Reuben1 event
and 12 more, ordered by how many events they share.
The pattern
Where Baal-meon is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
6 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (2), Joshua (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Jeremiah (1) and Ezekiel (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 6, across 5 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Sources