place
Beth-biri
בֵּית בִּרְאִי
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 4:31
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 4:31
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.01°N · 34.49°E
Jebel el Biri (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Beth-biri in the text
Beth-biri is mentioned only once in the Bible, in 1Ch.4.31, as part of a list of towns allotted to the tribe of Simeon. The verse states that Beth-biri, along with several other towns, belonged to Simeon until the reign of David.
The name Beth-biri means "house of my creation" or "house of my pasture" in Hebrew. In the parallel list of Simeon's towns found in Joshua 19:4, the name Bethul appears instead of Beth-biri. This suggests that Beth-biri may have been an alternate name for Bethul or that the town's name changed over time.
The exact location of Beth-biri is not specified in the Bible, but it was within the territory of Simeon, which was located in the southern part of Canaan, within the larger allotment of the tribe of Judah. Simeon's territory was eventually absorbed into Judah, as the tribe's population decreased over time.
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
- David1 event
- Village1 event
- Settlement1 event
- Beersheba1 event
- Ain1 event
- Baalath-beer1 event
- Ashan1 event
- Hazar-shual1 event
- Moladah1 event
- Madmannah1 event
- Rimmon1 event
- Sharuhen1 event
and 3 more, ordered by how many events they share.
The pattern
Where Beth-biri 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.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
1 Chronicles1 verse
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