Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H1032
בֵּית חוֹרוֹן
Beth Choronbayth kho-rone'
Beth-horon
28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Bêyth Chôwrôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1032is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1032
Beth-Choron, the name of two adjoining places in Palestine
The King James renders it: Beth-horon.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Beth Choron is rendered "Beth-horon". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 10:10And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
- The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.
The first use
And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
Joshua 10:10בֵית־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's twenty-eight uses are in Joshua.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Horon14
- Beth13
- of Beth1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בֵּין | ben | between | Uses407 |
| בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי | Beth hal-Lachmi | Bethlehemite | Uses8 |
| בֵּיצָה | betsah | egg | Uses6 |
| בֵּית הַשִּׁמְשִׁי | Beth hash-Shimshi | Bethshemite | Uses4 |
| בֵּין | ben | between | Uses2 |
| בֵּית הָאֱלִי | Beth ha-Eli | Bethelite | Uses2 |
All 28, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
18 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בֵּ֥ית5
- בֵּית־3
- בֵּ֣ית2
- בֵית־2
- חוֹר֖וֹן2
- חוֹרֹ֖ן2
- בֵּ֤ית1
- חוֹר֛וֹן1
- חוֹרוֹן֙1
- חוֹר֑וֹן1
- חוֹרֹ֔ן1
- חוֹרֹן֙1
and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)27HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npl
Joshua
fourteen uses
And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
- בֵית־veit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חוֹרֹ֔ןchoronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
- בֵּית־beit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חוֹרֹן֙choronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.
- בֵּית־beit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חוֹרֹ֛ןchoronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east to Upper Beth-horon
- בֵּ֥יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חוֹרֹ֖ןchoronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
From 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.
- לְבֵית־leveit-preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Beth
- חֹר֖וֹןchoronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
On the west side the border curved southward from the hill facing Beth-horon on the south and came out at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the western side.
- בֵית־veit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חֹרוֹן֮choronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
Kibzaim, and Beth-horon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
- בֵּ֥יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חוֹרֹ֖ןchoronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
1 Samuel
two uses
another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.
- בֵּ֣יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חֹר֑וֹןchoronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
1 Kings
two uses
So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,
- בֵּ֥יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חֹרֹ֖ןchoronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
1 Chronicles
four uses
Jokmeam, Beth-horon,
- בֵּ֥יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חוֹר֖וֹןchoronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, as well as Uzzen-sheerah.
- בֵּית־beit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חוֹר֛וֹןchoronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
2 Chronicles
six uses
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
- בֵּ֤יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חוֹרוֹן֙choronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
- בֵּ֥יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חוֹר֖וֹןchoronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had dismissed from battle raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon. They struck down 3,000 people and carried off a great deal of plunder.
- בֵּ֣יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- חוֹר֑וֹןchoronproper noun (a name)tagged: Horon
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.