place
Beth-hoglah
בֵּית חׇגְלָה
Beth-hoglah was a town on the border between Judah and Benjamin, near the northern end of the Dead Sea. (Joshua 15:6; 18:19, 21)
- verses
- 3
- first named
- Joshua 15:6
- last named
- Joshua 18:21
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.82°N · 35.50°E
Deir Hajla (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Beth-hoglah in the text
Beth-hoglah, meaning "house of the partridge" in Hebrew, was a town located on the border between the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. It is mentioned three times in the book of Joshua, always in the context of defining the boundaries of these two tribes.
In Joshua 15:6, Beth-hoglah is described as being part of the northern border of Judah, near the end of the Salt Sea (Dead Sea). The border went up to Beth-hoglah and passed north of it, indicating that the town itself was within Judah's territory.
In Joshua 18:19 and 21, Beth-hoglah is listed among the cities allotted to the tribe of Benjamin. The border of Benjamin is described as passing south of Beth-hoglah, confirming its location on the boundary between the two tribes.
The exact location of Beth-hoglah is not specified in the Bible, but based on the descriptions in Joshua, it was likely situated in the Jordan Valley, near the northern end of the Dead Sea. Its proximity to the Dead Sea and its location on the border between Judah and Benjamin suggest that it may have been an important town for trade, agriculture, or defense.
The name "house of the partridge" may refer to the presence of these birds in the area or to a local feature that resembled a partridge. Partridges were common in the 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.
Stands in the same events as
- Gilgal1 event
- Kiriath-jearim1 event
- Beth-shemesh1 event
- Topheth1 event
- Timnah1 event
- Rephaim Valley1 event
- Beth-arabah1 event
- Achor Valley1 event
- En-rogel1 event
- En-shemesh1 event
- Baalah Mount1 event
- Debir1 event
and 2 more, ordered by how many events they share.
The pattern
Where Beth-hoglah 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.
3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 1 book.
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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