Strong's #1008: Beyth-'El (pronounced bayth-ale')
from 1004 and 410; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine:--Beth-el.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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bêytḣ'êl
Bethel = "house of God"
1) ancient place and seat of worship in Ephraim on border of Benjamin, identified with Luz (former name)
2) a place in south country of Judah, not far from Beersheba and Ziklag
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
Relation: from H1004 and H410
Usage:
This word is used 71 times:
Genesis 12:8: "from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent,"
Genesis 12:8: "on the east and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west,"
Genesis 13:3: "on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where"
Genesis 13:3: "where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;"
Genesis 28:19: "the name of that Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz"
Genesis 31:13: "I am the God of Bethel, where the pillar, and where"
Genesis 35:1: "Jacob, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there"
Genesis 35:3: "And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar unto God, who answered"
Genesis 35:6: "of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that"
Genesis 35:8: "died, beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name"
Genesis 35:15: "God spoke with him, Bethel."
Genesis 35:16: "And they journeyed from Bethel; from Bethel; and there was but to come"
Joshua 7:2: "which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke unto"
Joshua 8:9: "and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai:"
Joshua 8:12: "them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city."
Joshua 8:17: "a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after"
Joshua 12:9: "which is beside Bethel, one;"
Joshua 12:16: "of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;"
Joshua 16:1: "to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,"
Joshua 16:2: "And goeth out from Bethel from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along the borders of Archi"
Joshua 18:13: "the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended"
Joshua 18:22: "And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,"
Judges 1:22: "they also against Bethel: and the LORD was with"
Judges 1:23: "And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. of the city before was Luz.)"
Judges 4:5: "between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel"
Judges 20:18: "of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which"
Judges 20:26: "went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before"
Judges 20:31: "as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah"
Judges 21:2: "And the people came to the house of God, and abode till even before"
Judges 21:19: "yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, of Bethel,"
Judges 21:19: "is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up"
1 Samuel 7:16: "from year to year to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged"
1 Samuel 10:3: "men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three"
1 Samuel 13:2: "with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with"
1 Samuel 30:27: "To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south and to them which were in Jattir,"
1 Kings 12:29: "And he set the one in Bethel, put he in Dan."
1 Kings 12:32: "upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that"
1 Kings 12:32: "unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places"
1 Kings 12:33: "the altar which in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth"
1 Kings 13:1: "by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by"
1 Kings 13:4: "had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from"
1 Kings 13:10: "that he came to Bethel."
1 Kings 13:11: "Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; came and told"
1 Kings 13:11: "the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which"
1 Kings 13:32: "of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places"
2 Kings 2:2: "the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth,"
2 Kings 2:2: "I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel."
2 Kings 2:3: "And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel to Elisha, and said"
2 Kings 2:23: "And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he by the way, there came forth"
2 Kings 10:29: "from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan."
