place
Beth-pelet
בֵּית פָּ֑לֶט
Beth-pelet was a town in southern Judah, allotted to Judah and later resettled by the people of Judah after the Babylonian exile.
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Joshua 15:27
- last named
- Nehemiah 11:26
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.31°N · 34.91°E
Tell es Saqati (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 4 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Beth-pelet in the text
Beth-pelet, meaning "house of escape" or "house of flight" in Hebrew, was a town located in the southern part of Judah's territory, in the Negev region. It is mentioned twice in the Bible, first in Joshua 15:27 as part of the list of towns allotted to the tribe of Judah during the division of the Promised Land.
The second mention of Beth-pelet is in Nehemiah 11:26, where it is listed among the towns resettled by the people of Judah after their return from the Babylonian exile. This suggests that Beth-pelet was one of the towns that had been inhabited by the Judahites before the exile and was later reoccupied when they returned to their homeland.
The exact location of Beth-pelet is uncertain, but it was likely situated in the arid region south of Hebron, along with other towns mentioned in the same context, such as Moladah, Hazar-shual, and Beersheba.
No other information about Beth-pelet is provided in the Bible, and the town is not mentioned in any other historical or archaeological context. Its name, "house of escape" or "house of flight," may refer to its function as a place of refuge or to a local event or feature associated with escape or flight.
Relations
Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Beth-pelet 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 Nehemiah (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
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