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# בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1203

**Beeshterah** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Beeshterah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1203/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1203/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (? = בֵּית עשׁתרה = house of Ashtoreth, cf. sub בית) a Levitical city in Manasseh Jos 21:27; = עַשְׁתָּרוֹת 1 Ch 6:56

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Beeshtarah (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 21:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.27/#tree)

וְלִבְנֵ֣י גֵרְשׁוֹן֮ מִמִּשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת הַלְוִיִּם֒ מֵחֲצִ֞י מַטֵּ֣ה מְנַשֶּׁ֗ה אֶת־עִיר֙ מִקְלַ֣ט הָרֹצֵ֔חַ אֶת־גּוֹלָ֤ן בַּבָּשָׁן֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶֽת־בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָ֖ה וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ עָרִ֖ים שְׁתָּֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[belonged\] to the.descendants of.Gershon from the.clans of the.Levites from the.half of.the.tribe of.Manasseh (et) the.city of.(the).refuge of the.killer (et) Golan in (the) Bashan and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) Beeshtarah and (et) lands its.pasture cities two

*JPS 1917:* And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Beeshterah with the open land about it; two cities.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1203.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1203/): 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).