Beth-Arabah

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Beth-ar'abah. (House Of The Desert). One of the six cities of Judah, which were situated down in the Arabah , the sunk valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea,  Joshua 15:61, on the north border of the tribe. It is also included in the list of the towns of Benjamin.  Joshua 18:22.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Beth-Arabah (‘place of the Arabah’ [wh. see],   Joshua 15:6;   Joshua 15:61;   Joshua 18:22 ). A place in the Jericho plain, apparently north of Beth-hoglah, in the ‘wilderness.’ The name has not been recovered.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:6;  Joshua 15:61. One of the six cities of Judah, situated in the Arabah or sunken valley of the Jordan and the Dead Sea; between Bethhoglah and the high land on the W. Included in Benjamin ( Joshua 18:22).

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 18:22 Joshua 15:61  Joshua 18:18

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:6 Joshua 15:61 Joshua 18:22

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Beyth ha-Arabah', הָעֲרָבָה בֵּית , House Of The Desert; Sept. Βηθάραβα v. r. Βαιθαραβά and Θαραβαάμ ; in  Joshua 18:22, Βηθαβαρά v. r. Βαιθαβαρά ), one of the six cities of Judah which were situated in the Arabah, i.e. the sunk valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea ("wilderness,"  Joshua 15:61), on the north border of the tribe, and apparently between Beth-hoglah and the high land on the west of the Jordan valley ( Joshua 15:6). It was afterward included in the list of the towns of Benjamin ( Joshua 18:22). It is elsewhere ( Joshua 18:18) called simply ARABAH (See Arabah) (q.v.). It seems to be extant in the ruins called Kusr Hajla, a little south-west of the site of Beth-hoglah (q.v.).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

beth - ar´a - ba ( בּית הערבה , bēth hā - ‛ărābhāh  ; Βαιθαραβά , Baitharabá , "place of the Arabah"):

(1) One of the 6 cities of Judah "in the wilderness" ( Joshua 15:61 ), on the borders of Benjamin and Judah ( Joshua 15:6;  Joshua 18:18 Septuagint). "The wilderness of Judah" is the barren land West of the Dead Sea. Beth-arabah is not yet identified.

(2) One of the cities of Benjamin ( Joshua 18:22 ). Septuagint (Codex Vaticanus) reads Baithabara , and this may be correct. The names are early confounded. See Bethabara .