Strong’s H1044 · Hebrew
בֵּית עֵקֶד
Bêyth ʻÊqed · bayth ay'-ked
Origin from בַּיִת (H1004) and a derivative of עָקַד (H6123); house of (the) binding (for sheep-shearing);
Meaning Beth-Eked, a place in Palestine
In the King James Version shearing house.
In 1 verse of the King James Version
- 2 Kings 10:14And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
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.