TBESH · H1008G
בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · bet-el · Bethel
§ Bethel = "house of God" ancient place and seat of worship in Ephraim on border of Benjamin, identified with Luz (former name)
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בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל (bet-el) means “Bethel” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: bayth-ale' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · bet-el · Bethel
§ Bethel = "house of God" ancient place and seat of worship in Ephraim on border of Benjamin, identified with Luz (former name)
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בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · bet-el · Bethel
§ Bethel = "house of God" a place in south country of Judah
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from H1004 (בַּיִת) and H410 (אֵל); house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine
KJV glosses: Beth-el.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| vvv | 46 |
| bethel | 35 |
| in bethel | 8 |
| at bethel | 7 |
| of bethel | 7 |
| to bethel | 6 |
| of | 5 |
| to | 5 |
| and bethel | 3 |
| from | 3 |
| at | 1 |
| in | 1 |
| included | 1 |
| now the people of bethel | 1 |
| o bethel | 1 |
| offering in bethel | 1 |
| or bethel | 1 |
| toward | 1 |
| with bethel | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| in bethel | 12 |
| of bethel | 11 |
| bethel | 10 |
| to bethel | 7 |
| and bethel | 4 |
| of god | 4 |
| between bethel | 3 |
| from bethel | 3 |
| at bethel | 2 |
| against bethel | 1 |
| any more at bethel | 1 |
| beneath bethel | 1 |
| even to bethel | 1 |
| from him bethel | 1 |
| from thence unto bethel | 1 |
| he in bethel | 1 |
| me to bethel | 1 |
| not bethel | 1 |
| of them unto bethel | 1 |
| or bethel | 1 |
| shall bethel | 1 |
| unto bethel | 1 |
| with him bethel | 1 |
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From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
Read word by wordFrom the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
Read word by wordand he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
Read word by wordI am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up, leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”
Read word by wordThen God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
Read word by wordThen let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
Read word by wordSo Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
Read word by wordNow Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.
Read word by wordJacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
Read word by wordLater, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
Read word by wordMeanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
Read word by wordSo Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.
Read word by wordNow Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
Read word by wordNot a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.
Read word by wordthe king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;
Read word by wordthe king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
Read word by wordThe allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.
Read word by wordIt went on from Bethel (that is, Luz) and proceeded to the border of the Archites in Ataroth.
Read word by wordFrom there the border crossed over to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth-addar on the hill south of Lower Beth-horon.
Read word by wordBeth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
Read word by wordThe house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the LORD was with them.
Read word by wordThey sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),
Read word by wordAnd she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.
Read word by wordThe Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.
Read word by wordThen the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
Read word by wordThe Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
Read word by wordSo the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
Read word by word“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
Read word by wordEvery year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.
Read word by wordThen you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
Read word by wordHe chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.
Read word by wordHe sent gifts to those in Bethel, Ramoth Negev, and Jattir;
Read word by wordOne calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
Read word by wordAnd Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
Read word by wordOn the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
Read word by wordSuddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
Read word by wordNow when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
Read word by wordSo the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
Read word by wordNow a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.
Read word by wordfor the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
Read word by wordand Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
Read word by wordThen the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
Read word by wordFrom there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
Read word by wordbut he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.
Read word by wordThus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.
Read word by wordThen the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
Read word by wordHe even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.
Read word by wordThen the king asked, “What is this monument I see?” And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
Read word by wordJust as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
Read word by wordTheir holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.
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