place
Beth-anath
בֵּית־עֲנָת
Beth-anath was a Canaanite town allotted to the tribe of Naphtali, but the Naphtalites did not drive out its inhabitants.
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Joshua 19:38
- last named
- Judges 1:33
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 33.20°N · 35.43°E
Safad el Battikh (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 4 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Beth-anath in the text
Beth-anath was a Canaanite town mentioned in Joshua 19:38 as part of the territory allotted to the tribe of Naphtali during the division of the Promised Land. The name Beth-anath means "house of Anath," possibly referring to a temple or shrine dedicated to the Canaanite goddess Anath. In Judges 1:33, it is revealed that the tribe of Naphtali failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-anath, and instead, the Canaanites continued to live among them. This failure to completely conquer and occupy the town was part of a larger pattern of the Israelites' incomplete obedience to God's command to drive out the Canaanites from the land. The exact location of Beth-anath is not specified in the Bible, but it was within the territory of Naphtali, which was situated in the northern part of Canaan, in the region of Galilee.
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
- Village1 event
- Beth-shemesh1 event
- Horem1 event
- Migdal-el1 event
- Yiron1 event
The pattern
Where Beth-anath 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.
2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (1) and Judges (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books. The name is written 3 times in them.
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.
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