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# בְּאֵרוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H881

**Beeroth** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Beeroth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/881/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְאֵרוֹת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/881/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (but only 2 S 4:2 according to Masorah, v. BD Ezr 2:25 elsewhere בְּאֵרֹת), city of the Gibeonites Jos 9:17; assigned to Benjamin 2 S 4:2 Jos 18:25; cf. also Ezr 2:25 Ne 7:29; mod. el-Bîreh RobBR i, 452 BdPal. 214 Surveyiii. 88.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Beeroth (5).

## In the verses

[Joshua 18:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.25/#tree)

גִּבְע֥וֹן וְהָֽרָמָ֖ה וּבְאֵרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* Gibeon and (the) Ramah and Beeroth

*JPS 1917:* Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth;

[Nehemiah 7:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.29/#tree)

אַנְשֵׁ֨י קִרְיַ֤ת יְעָרִים֙ קִרְיַ֤ת יְעָרִים֙ כְּפִירָ֣ה וּבְאֵר֔וֹת שְׁבַ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.men of Kiriath.Jearim Kephirah and Beeroth seven hundred(s) forty and three

*JPS 1917:* The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/881.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/881/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).