Bealoth

== Easton's Bible Dictionary == Joshua 15:241 Kings 4:16 == Fausset's Bible Dictionary ==

A town on the extreme S. of Judah (Joshua 15:24). Feminine plural of Baal.

== Holman Bible Dictionary == Joshua 15:24Joshua 19:821 Kings 4:16 == Hitchcock's Bible Names == == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible ==

BEALOTH ( Joshua 15:24 ). An unknown town in the extreme south of Judah. See Balah.

== Morrish Bible Dictionary ==

City in the south of Judah. Joshua 15 . 24 .

== Smith's Bible Dictionary ==

Be'aloth. (ladies). A town in the extreme south of Judah. Joshua 15:24.

== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ==

bē´a -loth ( בּעלות , be‛ālōth  ; Βαλώθ , Balō̇th ): An unidentified city of Judah in the Negeb (Joshua 15:24 ).

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

(Heb. Bealoth', בְּעָלוֹת , the plur. fem. of Baal, signifying prob. citizens; Sept. Βααλώθ v. r. Βαλώθ and Βαλμαινάν ), the name of two places.

1. A town in the southern part of Judah (i.e. in Simeon), mentioned in connection with Telem and Hazor (Joshua 15:24); evidently different from either of the two places called Baalath (Joshua 15:9; Joshua 15:29), but probably the same as the BAALATH-BEER (See Baalath-Beer) (q.v.) of chap. 19:8. Schwarz (Palest. p. 100) thinks it is a "Kulat al-Baal situated 7.5 English miles S.E. of Telem and N.W. of Zapha;" but no such names appear on any modern map, and the region indicated is entirely south of the bounds of Palestine.

2. A district of Asher, of which Baanah ben-Hushai was Solomon's commissariat (1 Kings 4:16, where the Auth. Vers. renders incorrectly "in Aloth," Sept. ἐν Βααλώθ , Vulg. in Baloth); apparently = "adjacent cities," i.e. the sea-coast, where the river Beleus (Βήλεος, Joseph. War, 2, 10:2) may be a trace of the name. (See Belus). Schwarz (Palest. p. 237) unnecessarily identifies it with Baal-gad or Laish.