Bizjothjah
Bizjothjah [1]
(Heb. Bizyotheyah', בַּזְיוֹתְיָה , according to Gesenius, Contempt Of Jehovah; according to First, for , בֵּיתאּזְיוֹתאּיָהּ , House Of the Olives Of Jehovah, i.e. superior olive-yard; Sept. Βιζιωθία , but most copies omit; Vulg. Baziothia), a town in the south of Judah (i.e. in Simeon), named in connection with Beersheba and Baalah ( Joshua 15:28) in such a way (the copulative being omitted) as to make it identical with the latter = Bizjothjah-Baalah, and so the enumeration in Joshua 15:32 requires; compare the parallel passage, ch. 19:2, 3, where the simple Balah (doubtless the same) occurs in almost precisely the same order. (See Judah) . In ch. 19:8 it is also called Baalath - BEER, which is there farther identified with "Ramath of the south," and is elsewhere mentioned under still other similar names (Baal, Bilhah), and yet again as LEHI (See Lehi) (q.v.); from all which titles we may conclude that it lay on an eminence (Ramah) near a well (Beer), in a fruitful spot (Bizjoth), and was at one time a site of the worship of Baal (Baalath), whose name (as in some other instances) was eventually replaced by that of Jab. (See Ramath-Nekeb).
