Strong's Hebrew · H1008

בֵּית־אֵל

Bêyth-ʼÊl · bayth-ale'

Beth-el.

Definition

Beth-El, a place in Palestine

Derivation

from H1004 (בַּיִת) and H410 (אֵל); house of God;

Appears 136 times in Scripture

Genesis 13:3

From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,

Genesis 12:8

From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 28:19

and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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