Beth-Lebaoth

== Holman Bible Dictionary == Joshua 19:6Joshua 15:321 Chronicles 4:31 == Hitchcock's Bible Names == == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible ==

BETH-LEBAOTH ( Joshua 19:6 ‘house of lionesses’?). A town of Simeon. See Beth-biri.

== Smith's Bible Dictionary ==

Beth-leb'aoth. (house of lionesses). A town in the lot of Simeon, Joshua 19:6, in the extreme south of Judah. See Joshua 15:32. See Lebaoth. In 1 Chronicles 4:31, the name is given Beth-Birei.

== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ==

beth -lē̇ -bā´oth , beth -leb´aoth ( בּית לבאות , bēth lebhā'ōth  ; Βαιθαλβάθ , Baithalbáth , "house of lionesses"): A town in the territory of Simeon (Joshua 19:6 ). In 1 Chronicles 4:31 the name is given as Beth-birei: the Revised Version (British and American) Beth-Biri (which see).

== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature ==

(Heb. Beyth Lebaoth', בֵּית לְבָאוֹת , house of lionesses, Sept. Βηθλεβαώθ v. r. Βαιθαλβάθ and Βαθαρώθ ), a town in the lot of Simeon (Joshua 19:6), and therefore in the extreme south of Judah (Joshua 15:32, where it is called simply LEBAOTH (See Lebaoth) [q.v.]), probably in the wild country to which its name bears witness. In the parallel list in 1 Chronicles 4:31, the name is given BETH-BIREI. Reland (Pal/est. p. 648) conjectures that it may have been the "toparchy of Bethleptephae" (Βεθληπτηφῶν ), mentioned by Josephus (War, 4, 8, 1) and Pliny (Betleptephene, 5, 15), south of Jerusalem; but this is hardly probable (see also the improbable surmise of Korb in Jahn's Jahrb. f. Philol. 4, 114 sq.).