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Lexicon :: Strong's H1008 - bêṯ-'ēl

Aa
בֵּית־אֵל
Transliteration
bêṯ-'ēl
Pronunciation
bayth-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 241a

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs: בית-אל.

Strong’s Definitions

בֵּית־אֵל Bêyth-ʼÊl, bayth-ale'; from H1004 and H410; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine:—Beth-el.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 70x

The KJV translates Strong's H1008 in the following manner: Bethel (66x), non translated variable (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 70x
The KJV translates Strong's H1008 in the following manner: Bethel (66x), non translated variable (4x).

  1. Bethel = "house of God"

    1. ancient place and seat of worship in Ephraim on border of Benjamin, identified with Luz (former name)

    2. a place in south country of Judah, not far from Beersheba and Ziklag

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בֵּית־אֵל Bêyth-ʼÊl, bayth-ale'; from H1004 and H410; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine:—Beth-el.
STRONGS H1008: Abbreviations
בֵּֽיתְאֵל 71 proper name, of a location Bethel (so read, not בֵּית־אֵל as Joshua 7:2 + according to see d. H; compare Baer Genesis 12:8; house of God, or house of El) —
1. ancient place and seat of worship in Ephraim on border of Benjamin, identification with Luz (former name) Genesis 28:19; Genesis 35:6; Joshua 18:13; Judges 1:23; apparently distinguished from Luz Joshua 16:2 (yet compare Di); name connected with vision of Jacob when journeying to Paddan-Aram (JE) Genesis 28:19; Genesis 35:7 (where אֵל ֵֽֽֽבּיתְאֵל, but Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate Ol strike out אֵל; Di maintains); compare Hosea 12:5; when journeying from P.-A. Genesis 35:15 (P); name apparently given first to a stone (Genesis 28:18; 35:14) compare WeSkizzen iii. 70; הַר ֵֽֽֽבּיתְאֵל 1 Samuel 13:2; later important place of worship 1 Samuel 10:3 עָלָה אֶ־ל הָאֱלֹהִים בֵּיתְאֵל; abode of prophet 1 Kings 13:11; 2 Kings 2:3; Jeroboam set up one of the golden calves at Bethel 1 Kings 12:29f. compare also 1 Kings 13:1f; 2 Kings 10:29; 2 Kings 23:15; Jeremiah 48:13 see further 2 Kings 17:28; 2 Kings 23:15 Th proposes on internal grounds, בֵּית אַל house of nothingness, or אָלָה בּ׳ house of execration; אָלָה בּ׳ also RenHist. iii. 185; in prophets Amos 3:14; Amos 4:4; Amos 5:5 (twice in verse); Amos 5:6; Amos 7:10, 13; Hosea 10:15; note especially Amos 5:5 ביתאל יִהְיֶה לְאָ֑וֶן, & בֵּית אָוֶן (house of iniquity) as substitute for ביתאל Hosea 4:15; Hosea 5:8; Hosea 10:5 (עֶגְלוֺת בית און); — modern Beitîn RobBR i. 448 f. GuérinJudée iii. 14-27 compare BdPal 215 Surveyii. 305.
2. place in south country of Judah, not far from Beersheba & Ziklag 1 Samuel 30:27 compare We Dr; = MT כסיל Joshua 15:30 (text error; Greek Version of the LXX Βαιθηλ); also בְּתוּל Joshua 19:4, בְּתוּאֵל 1 Chronicles 4:30.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

12:8; 28:18; 28:19; 28:19; 35:6; 35:7; 35:14; 35:15

Joshua

7:2; 15:30; 16:2; 18:13; 19:4

Judges

1:23

1 Samuel

10:3; 13:2; 30:27

1 Kings

12:29; 13:1; 13:11

2 Kings

2:3; 10:29; 17:28; 23:15; 23:15

1 Chronicles

4:30

Jeremiah

48:13

Hosea

4:15; 5:8; 10:5; 10:15; 12:5

Amos

3:14; 4:4; 5:5; 5:5; 5:6; 7:10; 7:13

H1008

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Strong's Number H1008 matches the Hebrew בֵּית־אֵל (bêṯ-'ēl),
which occurs 144 times in 65 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 12:8–2Ki 23:19)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 - And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:3 - And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:6 - And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 - And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8 - And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:15 - And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 - So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 - Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 - So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - And taking about five thousand men, he put them in position for a surprise attack on the west side of Ai, between Beth-el and Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9 - The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Beth-el, one;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:16 - The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1 - And the limit of the land marked out for the children of Joseph went out from Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, in the waste land, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:2 - And it goes out from Beth-el to Luz, and on as far as the limit of the Archites to Ataroth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:13 - And from there the line goes south to Luz, to the side of Luz (which is Beth-el), then down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain to the south of Beth-horon the lower.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:22 - And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:22 - And the family of Joseph went up against Beth-el, and the Lord was with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23 - So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - (And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 - And they got up and went up to Beth-el to get directions from God, and the children of Israel said, Who is to be the first to go up to the fight against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah is to go up first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:26 - Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there before the Lord, going without food all day till evening, and offering burned offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31 - And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before, at their first attack, they put to death about thirty men of Israel on the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2 - And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - And they said, See, every year there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh, which is to the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway which goes up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:16 - From year to year he went in turn to Beth-el and Gilgal and Mizpah, judging Israel in all those places.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3 - Then you are to go on from there, and when you come to the oak-tree of Tabor, you will see three men going up to God to Beth-el, one having with him three young goats and another three cakes of bread and another a skin full of wine:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 - And Saul took for himself three thousand men of Israel, of whom he kept two thousand with him in Michmash and in the mountain of Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: the rest of the people he sent back to their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:27 - He sent to those who were in Beth-el, and in Ramah of the South, and in Jattir;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:29 - And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:33 - He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month fixed by him at his pleasure; and he gave orders for a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar, and there he made the smoke of his offerings go up.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:1 - Then a man of God came from Judah by the order of the Lord to Beth-el, where Jeroboam was by the altar, burning offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - Then the king, hearing the man of God crying out against the altar at Beth-el, put out his hand from the altar, saying, Take him prisoner. And his hand, stretched out against him, became dead, and he had no power of pulling it back.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:10 - So he went another way, and not by the way he came to Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 - Now there was an old prophet living in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and gave him word of all the man of God had done that day in Beth-el, and they gave their father an account of the words he had said to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32 - For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:2 - And Elijah said to Elisha, Come no farther for the Lord has sent me to Beth-el. But Elisha said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went down to Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:3 - And at Beth-el the sons of the prophets came out to Elisha and said, Has it been made clear to you that the Lord is going to take away your master from over you today? And he said, Yes, I have knowledge of it: say no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:23 - Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-hair! go up, old no-hair!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 - But Jehu did not keep himself from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and the evil he made Israel do; the gold oxen were still in Beth-el and in Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:28 - So one of the priests whom they had taken away as a prisoner from Samaria came back, and, living in Beth-el, became their teacher in the worship of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 - What is that headstone I see over there? And the men of the town said to him, It is the resting-place of the man of God who came from Judah and gave word of all these things which you have done to the altar of Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

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