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:
2 Kings 17:28: "they had carried away came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how"
2 Kings 23:4: "in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel."
2 Kings 23:15: "the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son"
2 Kings 23:17: "things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel."
2 Kings 23:19: "the acts that he had done in Bethel."
1 Chronicles 7:28: "And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns Naaran, and westward Gezer,"
2 Chronicles 13:19: "cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with"
Ezra 2:28: "The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred and three."
Nehemiah 7:32: "The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred and three."
Nehemiah 11:31: "from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Bethel, and in their villages,"
Jeremiah 48:13: "as of Israel was ashamed of Bethel of Bethel their confidence."
Hosea 10:15: "So shall Bethel do unto you because in a morning"
Hosea 12:4: "and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with"
Amos 3:14: "upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off,"
Amos 4:4: "Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal transgression; and bring your sacrifices"
Amos 5:5: "But seek not Bethel, nor into Gilgal, and pass not"
Amos 5:5: "for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught."
Amos 5:6: "and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel."
Amos 7:10: "Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent Jeroboam king of Israel,"
Amos 7:13: "not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel,"
Zechariah 7:2: "When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, to pray before"
