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    Beth-arabah

    בֵּית הָֽעֲרָבָה

    Beth-arabah was a town and wilderness area allotted to Judah and Benjamin, and the Arbathite was a descendant of Abi-albon.

    Where the story of Beth-arabah happens Beth-arabah, and 13 places the claims reach, framed to them: Beth-arabah, Achor_Valley, Baalah_Mount, Beth-hoglah, Beth-shemesh, Chesalon, Debir, En-rogel, En-shemesh, Jerusalem, Kiriath-jearim, Rephaim_Valley, Seir_Mount, Timnah. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Beth-arabahAchor_ValleyBaalah_MountBeth-shemeshEn-rogelSeir_Mount
    Beth-arabah, and 13 places the claims reach
    verses
    6
    first named
    Joshua 15:6
    last named
    1 Chronicles 11:32
    feature
    region
    coordinates
    30.42°N · 35.15°E
    region30.42°N · 35.15°E

    Arabah (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 4 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Beth-arabah in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Beth-arabah, meaning "house of the desert" or "house of the plain" in Hebrew, was a town and wilderness area mentioned in the Old Testament. In Joshua 15:6 and 15:61, it is listed as part of the wilderness area within the territory allotted to the tribe of Judah. However, in Joshua 18:18 and 18:22, Beth-arabah is mentioned as a town in the territory allotted to the tribe of Benjamin.

    The exact location of Beth-arabah is not specified in the Bible, but it was likely situated in the Judean Desert, near the Dead Sea. The wilderness of Beth-arabah was one of the regions where the cities of Judah were located (Joshua 15:61).

    The term "Arbathite" is used to describe Abi-albon, one of David's mighty men, in 2Sa.23.31 and 1Ch.11.32. The name suggests that Abi-albon was from Beth-arabah or had some connection to the town or region.

    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.

    Associated with

    Stands in the same events as

    and 2 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    The pattern

    Where Beth-arabah 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.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 6 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA4 VERSES53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 6 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA4 VERSES53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Beth-arabah is named in 6 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 63 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 6, across 3 books.

    1. Joshua4 verses

      15:615:6118:1818:22

    2. 2 Samuel1 verse

      23:31

    3. 1 Chronicles1 verse

      11:32

    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.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Sources

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