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בֵּית־עֲנָת

Beth-anath

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H1043 Strong's Hebrew
Bêyth ʻĂnâth Transliteration
/bayth an-awth'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 6 appearances

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About this entry

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“Beth-anath” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name בית ענת (Bêyth ʻĂnâth). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. More than half of its appearances fall in Joshua. Scripture first uses it in Joshua 19:38. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

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

Strong's H1043 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.
Joshua 19:38
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Joshua 19:38.
Judges 1:33
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Judges 1:33.
#3,040
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 2 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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) 2 verses · 100%

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: Bethanath 3×
  • American Standard Version: Beth-anath 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Beth-anath 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Anath 2×, Beth 2×, Beth anath 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H1043 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Bethanath” 3×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H1043 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Beth-anath” 3×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H1043 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Beth-anath” 3×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H1043 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Anath” 2×
  • “Beth” 2×
  • “Beth anath” 2×

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-anath = "house of response (or affliction)"
  2. a place in Naphtali

Word origin

n.pr.loc. in Naphtali (temple of ʿAnât NesEg 114 BaeRel 53 MeyZMG 1877, 718) Jos 19:38; Ju 1:33; בֵּית ע׳ v 33;—perhaps mod. Ain-Ata vdVeldeNarr. i. 170, 6 m. W. of Kedesh (name ʿAnata GuérinGal ii. 374; ʿAinîtha;, Survey i. 200).

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

Derived from בית ענות (Bêyth ʻĂnôwth) (H1042) — Beth-anoth.

Part of speech: Proper Name Location


Forms in the corpus

The 5 distinct written forms H1043 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
עֲנָ֔ת Noun, Proper Judges 1:33 2
בֵית Noun, Proper Judges 1:33 1
וּ/בֵ֣ית Noun, Proper Judges 1:33 1
וּ/בֵית Noun, Proper Joshua 19:38 1
עֲנָ֖ת Noun, Proper Joshua 19:38 1

Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Beth-anath). 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 response, one of the fenced cities of Naphtali (Josh. 19:38). It is perhaps identical with the modern village Ainata, 6 miles west of Kedesh.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(house of echo or reply), one of the "fenced cities" of Naphtali, named with Beth-shemesh, (Joshua 19:38) from neither of them were the Canaanites expelled. (Judges 1:33)).

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

house of affliction

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


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist 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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