Beth-Lebaoth

Holman Bible Dictionary

Joshua 19:6 Joshua 15:32 1 Chronicles 4:31

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.).