Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H1052
בֵּית שְׁאָן
Beth Sheanbayth she-awn'
Beth-shean
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Bêyth Shᵉʼân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1052is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1052
Beth-Shean or Beth-Shan, a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Beth-shean, Beth-Shan.
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 Shean is rendered "Beth-shean". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 17:11Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh was assigned Beth-shean, Ibleam, Dor (that is, Naphath), Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo, each with their surrounding settlements.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh was assigned Beth-shean, Ibleam, Dor (that is, Naphath), Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo, each with their surrounding settlements.
Joshua 17:11בֵּית־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Beth7
- Shean5
- Shan4
- from Beth1
- in 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 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- בֵּית־3
- בֵּ֣ית2
- שְׁאָ֣ן2
- שְׁאָן֙2
- בְּבֵית־1
- בֵּ֥ית1
- בֵּֽית־1
- מִבֵּ֤ית1
- שְׁאָ֡ן1
- שְׁאָ֤ן1
- שַׁ֗ן1
- שָׁ֑ן1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)16HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npl
Joshua
four uses
Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh was assigned Beth-shean, Ibleam, Dor (that is, Naphath), Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo, each with their surrounding settlements.
- בֵּית־beit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שְׁאָ֣ןsheanproper noun (a name)tagged: Shean
“The hill country is not enough for us,” they replied, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel.”
- בְּבֵית־beveit-preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Beth
- שְׁאָן֙sheanproper noun (a name)tagged: Shean
Judges
two uses
At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.
- בֵּית־beit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שְׁאָ֣ןsheanproper noun (a name)tagged: Shean
1 Samuel
four uses
They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
- בֵּ֥יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שָֽׁן׃shanproper noun (a name)tagged: Shan
all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
- בֵּ֣יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שָׁ֑ןshanproper noun (a name)tagged: Shan
2 Samuel
two uses
he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.
- בֵּֽית־beit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שַׁ֗ןshanproper noun (a name)tagged: Shan
1 Kings
four uses
Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;
- בֵּ֣יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שְׁאָ֡ןsheanproper noun (a name)tagged: Shean
- מִבֵּ֤יתmibeitpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Beth
- שְׁאָן֙sheanproper noun (a name)tagged: Shean
1 Chronicles
two uses
And along the borders of Manasseh were Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, together with their villages. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.
- בֵּית־beit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שְׁאָ֤ןsheanproper noun (a name)tagged: Shan
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.