Beon
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Morrish Bible Dictionary [1]
Another form of BAAL-MEON. Numbers 32:3 : cf. Numbers 32:38 . See BETH-MEON.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [2]
Contracted from Baal Meon ( Numbers 32:3; Numbers 32:38).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
BEON ( Numbers 32:3 ). Prob. = Baal-Meon (wh. see).
Holman Bible Dictionary [4]
Numbers 32:3Beth-Baal-Meon
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
(Heb, Beon', בְּעֹן, apparently an early error of transcription for MEON (See Meon) [q.v.]; Sept. Βαιαν v. r. Βαμά ), one of the places fit for pasturage given by Joshua to the tribes on the east of Jordan ( Numbers 32:3). It is elsewhere more properly called BETH-BAAL. MEON ( Joshua 13:17), or more briefly BAAL-MEON ( Numbers 32:38), and BETH- MEON ( Jeremiah 48:23), for which this name may be a contraction.
