(Hebrews Badlath’ Beer’, , Baalah of [or having] a well; Sept. v. r. ), probably the same as the BAAL of 1Ch 4:33, a city of Simeon; mentioned in connection with RAMATH Negeb, or Southern Ramah (Jos 19:8; comp. 1Sa 30:27), in such a manner as to make them identical (so the Sept. B. ; Vulg. Baalath-Beerramoth). SEE RAMATH. It is also the same with the BEALOTH SEE BEALOTH (q.v.) of Judah (Jos 15:24). Other sacred wells in this parched region were the Beer-lahai-roi, the well of the vision of God; and Beer-sheba, the well of the oath. SEE BEER.<\/p>\n
Baalath-Beer<\/p>\n
(Bealoth or Ramath- negeb). “From the incidental notices and the names we gather that it was a watering-place of importance (Beer-Baal) and had artificial tanks; that’ it was on a commanding height (Ramath); that it was on the frontier,-and we might expect traces of fortification to remain :All these conditions are fulfilled in Kurnab, south-west of Dhullam, where alone for many miles water is always found in plenty, and where the ravine is crossed by a strong dam to retain it. The walls of a fortified town are yet clearly to be traced, with extensive ruins, and it is at the head of the most frequented pass into Palestine from. the south-east” (Tristram, Bible Places, p. 17). <\/p>\n
Bailath-beer (Hebrews Badlath’ Beer’, , Baalah of [or having] a well; Sept. v. r. ), probably the same as the BAAL of 1Ch 4:33, a city of Simeon; mentioned in connection with RAMATH Negeb, or Southern Ramah (Jos 19:8; comp. 1Sa 30:27), in such a manner as to make them identical (so the Sept. B. … Continue reading “Bailath-beer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}