Bethbasi
Bethbasi
(), a town which, from the mention of its decays ( ), must have been originally fortified, lying in the desert ( ), and in which Jonathan and Simon Maccabaeus took refuge from Bacchides (1Ma 9:62; 1Ma 9:64). Josephus (Ant. 13, 1, 5) has. Bethalaga, (Beth-hogla), but a reading of the passage quoted by Reland (Palaest. p. 632) presents the more probable form of Beth- keziz. Either alternative fixes the situation as in the Jordan valley not far from Jericho. SEE KEZIZ.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Bethbasi
BETHBASI (1Ma 9:62; 1Ma 9:64).Josephus reads Beth-hoglah. The name has not been recovered.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Bethbasi
beth-bas (, Baithbas): The name may mean place of marshes = Hebrew beth-bec. According to G. A. Smith there is a Wady el-Bassah East of Tekoa in the wilderness of Judea. The name means marsh, which Dr. Smith thinks impossible, and really an echo of an ancient name. Jonathan and Simon repaired the ruins of the fortified place in the desert (1 Macc 9:62, 64). Josephus reads Bethalaga, i.e. Beth-hoglah (Ant., XIII, i, 5). Peshitta version reads Beth-Yashan (see JESHANAH), which Dr. Cheyne thinks is probably correct. Thus the origin of the name and the site of the town are merely conjectural.