Strong’s H1032 · Hebrew
בֵּית חוֹרוֹן
Bêyth Chôwrôwn · bayth kho-rone'
Origin from בַּיִת (H1004) and חוֹר (H2356); house of hollowness;
Meaning Beth-Choron, the name of two adjoining places in Palestine
In the King James Version Beth-horon.
In 13 verses of the King James Version
- Joshua 10:10And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
- Joshua 10:11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
- Joshua 16:3And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.
- Joshua 16:5And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
- Joshua 18:13And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
- Joshua 18:14And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
- Joshua 21:22And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs; four cities.
- 1 Samuel 13:18And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
- 1 Kings 9:17And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
- 1 Chronicles 6:68And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs,
- 1 Chronicles 7:24(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)
- 2 Chronicles 8:5Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
- 2 Chronicles 25:13But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.