בֵּית חוֹרֹן
Beth-horon
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1032 appears — 13 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua 7 verses
- Joshua 10:10 בֵית חוֹרֹ֔ן n Proper n Proper Yahweh confused them before Israel, and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.
- Joshua 10:11 בֵּית חוֹרֹן֙ n Proper n Proper It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
- Joshua 16:3 בֵּית חוֹרֹ֛ן n Proper n Proper and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and the goings out of it were at the sea.
- Joshua 16:5 בֵּ֥ית חוֹרֹ֖ן n Proper n Proper The border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was [thus]: the border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper;
- Joshua 18:13 לְ/בֵית חֹר֖וֹן prep + n Proper n Proper The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward; and the border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.
- Joshua 18:14 בֵית חֹרוֹן֮ n Proper n Proper The border extended [there], and turned about on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and the goings out of it were at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
- Joshua 21:22 בֵּ֥ית חוֹרֹ֖ן n Proper n Proper and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs; four cities.
1 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 2 verses
2 Chronicles 2 verses
- 2 Chronicles 8:5 בֵּ֤ית חוֹרוֹן֙ בֵּ֥ית חוֹר֖וֹן n Proper n Proper n Proper n Proper Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
- 2 Chronicles 25:13 בֵּ֣ית חוֹר֑וֹן n Proper n Proper But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and took much spoil.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew name בית חורון centers on the idea of “Beth-horon.” Joshua dominates its distribution — 7 of 13 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 13 verses — uncommon. First canonically at Joshua 10:10, it enters the text early. For the data behind this summary, explore 13-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1032 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,190
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,190 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 7 verses 54%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 15%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 15%
By section of the Old Testament
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 13 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 9 verses · 69%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 31%
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: Bethhoron 14×
- American Standard Version: Beth-horon 14×
- Berean Standard Bible: Beth-horon 12×, Of 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Beth horon 16×, Beth 6×, Horon 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1032 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1032 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1032 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1032 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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.
- Beth-horon = "house of hollowness"
- two towns in Ephraim
Word origin
Derived from בית (bayith) (H1004) — house.
Forms in the corpus
The 18 distinct written forms H1032 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 | 1 Chronicles 6:68 | 5 |
| בֵּית | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 7:24 | 3 |
| בֵית | Noun, Proper | Joshua 10:10 | 2 |
| בֵּ֣ית | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 13:18 | 2 |
| חוֹר֖וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:68 | 2 |
| חוֹרֹ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 16:5 | 2 |
| בֵּ֤ית | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 8:5 | 1 |
| חֹר֑וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 13:18 | 1 |
| חֹר֖וֹן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 18:13 | 1 |
| חֹרֹ֖ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 9:17 | 1 |
| חֹרוֹן֮ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 18:14 | 1 |
| חוֹר֑וֹן | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 25:13 | 1 |
| חוֹר֛וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 7:24 | 1 |
| חוֹרֹ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 10:10 | 1 |
| חוֹרֹ֛ן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 16:3 | 1 |
| חוֹרֹן֙ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 10:11 | 1 |
| חוֹרוֹן֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 8:5 | 1 |
| לְ/בֵית | Noun, Proper | Joshua 18:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1032, 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.
- Βηθαβαρα Bēthabará G962 Bethabara
- בית Bayith H1006 Bajith
- בית און Bêyth ʼÂven H1007 Beth-aven
- ביתאל Bêyth-ʼÊl H1008 Bethel
- בית ארבאל Bêyth ʼArbêʼl H1009 Beth-Arbel
- בית בעל מעון Bêyth Baʻal Mᵉʻôwn H1010 Beth-baal-meon
- בית בראי Bêyth Birʼîy H1011 Beth-birei
- בית ברה Bêyth Bârâh H1012 Beth-barah
- ביתגדר Bêyth-Gâdêr H1013 Beth-gader
- בית גמול Bêyth Gâmûwl H1014 Beth-gamul
- בית דבלתים Bêyth Diblâthayim H1015 Beth-diblathaim
- ביתדגון Bêyth-Dâgôwn H1016 Beth-dagon
- בית האצל Bêyth hâʼêtsel H1018 Beth-ezel
- בית הגלגל Bêyth hag-Gilgâl H1019 Beth-gilgal
- בית הישימות Bêyth ha-Yshîy-môwth H1020 Beth-jesimoth
- בית הכרם Bêyth hak-Kerem H1021 Beth-haccerem
- בית המרחק Bêyth ham-Merchâq H1023 Beth Ham-merchaq
- בית המרכבות Bêyth ham-Markâbôwth H1024 Beth-marcaboth
- בית העמק Bêyth hâ-ʻÊmeq H1025 Beth-emek
- בית הערבה Bêyth hâ-ʻĂrâbâh H1026 Beth-arabah
- בית הרם Bêyth hâ-Râm H1027 Beth-aram
- בית השטה Bêyth hash-Shiṭṭâh H1029 Beth-shittah
- בית חגלה Bêyth Choglâh H1031 Beth-hoglah
- בית כר Bêyth Kar H1033 Beth-car
+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-horon). 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 the hollow, or of the cavern, the name of two towns or villages (2 Chr. 8:5; 1 Chr. 7:24) in the territory of Ephraim, on the way from Jerusalem to Joppa. They are distinguished as Beth-horon "the upper" and Beth-horon "the nether." They are about 2 miles apart, the former being about 10 miles north-west of Jerusalem. Between the two places was the ascent and descent of Beth-horon, leading from Gibeon down to the western plain (Josh. 10:10, 11; 18:13, 14), down which the five kings of the Amorites were driven by Joshua in that great battle, the most important in which the Hebrews had been as yet engaged, being their first conflict with their enemies in the open field. Jehovah interposed in behalf of Israel by a terrific hailstorm, which caused more deaths among the Canaanites than did the swords of the Israelites. Beth-horon is mentioned as having been taken by Shishak, B.C. 945, in the list of his conquests, and the pass was the scene of a victory of Judas Maccabeus. (Comp. Ex. 9:19, 25; Job 38:22, 23; Ps. 18:12-14; Isa. 30:30.) The modern name of these places is Beit-ur, distinguished by el-Foka, "the upper," and el-Tahta, "the nether." The lower was at the foot of the pass, and the upper, 500 feet higher, at the top, west of Gibeon. (See GIBEON.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(house of caverns), the name of two towns or villages, an "upper" and a "nether," (Joshua 16:3,5; 1 Chronicles 7:24) on the road from Gibeon to Azekah, (Joshua 10:10,11) and the Philistine plain. 1 Macc. 3:24. Beth-horon lay on the boundary line between Benjamin and Ephraim, (Joshua 16:3,5) and Josh 18:13,14 Was counted to Ephraim, (Joshua 21:22; 1 Chronicles 7:24) and given to the Kohathites. (Joshua 21:22; 1 Chronicles 6:68) (1Chr 6:53) The two Beth-horons still survive in the modern villages of Beit-ur, et-tahta and el-foka .
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
house of wrath
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 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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