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בֵּית הַכֶּ֫רֶם

Beth-haccerem

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Beth-haccerem’ fuller range ↓

H1021 Strong's Hebrew
Bêyth hak-Kerem Transliteration
/bayth hak-keh'-rem/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 4 appearances

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About this entry

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בית הכרם — transliterated Bêyth hak-Kerem — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Beth-haccerem.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Nehemiah (50% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is Nehemiah 3:14. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Beth-haccerem
Modern gloss
Beth-haccerem
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H1021 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
Nehemiah 3:14
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Nehemiah 3:14.
Jeremiah 6:1
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Jeremiah 6:1.
#3,696
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 50%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 1 · 50%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Bethhaccerem 1×, Fire in bethhaccerem 1×
  • American Standard Version: Beth-haccherem 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Beth-haccherem 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Beth hakkerem 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H1021 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Bethhaccerem” 1×
  • “Fire in bethhaccerem” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H1021 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Beth-haccherem” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H1021 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Beth-haccherem” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H1021 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Beth hakkerem” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Beth-haccerem = "house of the vineyard"
  2. a place in Judah

Word origin

בֵּית הַכֶּ֫רֶם n.pr.loc. in Judah ( vineyard place )

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from בית (bayith) (H1004) — house.

Part of speech: Proper Name Location


Forms in the corpus

The 4 distinct written forms H1021 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
בֵּ֥ית Noun, Proper Jeremiah 6:1 1
בֵּית Noun, Proper Nehemiah 3:14 1
הַכֶּ֖רֶם Noun, Proper Jeremiah 6:1 1
הַכָּ֑רֶם Noun, Proper Nehemiah 3:14 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1021, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

+20 more proper names from this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 48 — not the complete family. 44 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Beth-haccerem). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

House of a vineyard, a place in the tribe of Judah (Neh. 3:14) where the Benjamites were to set up a beacon when they heard the trumpet against the invading army of the Babylonians (Jer. 6:1). It is probable that this place is the modern Ain Karim, or "well of the vineyards," near which there is a ridge on which are cairns which may have served as beacons of old, one of which is 40 feet high and 130 in diameter.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(house of the vine). (Nehemiah 3:14; Jeremiah 6:1) A beacon station near Tekoa, supposed to be the Frank Mountain, a few miles southeast of Bethlehem.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

house of the vineyard

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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