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.

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