H1008 בֵּית־אֵל
Bêyth-ʼÊl — Beth-El, a place in Palestine
KJV: Beth-el.
Built from בַּיִת bayith (a house) + אֵל ʼêl (strength) — means “house of God”
Occurs 144 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בֵּֽיתְאֵל 71 n.pr.loc. Bethel
- 1 ancient place and seat of worship in Ephraim on border of Benjamin, identif. with Luz (former name)
- 2 place in south country of Judah, not far from Beersheba & Ziklag
Where it occurs
- Genesis 12:8 — He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai…
- Genesis 13:3 — He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between…
- Genesis 28:19 — He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
- Genesis 31:13 — I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land…
- Genesis 35:1 — God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you…
- Genesis 35:3 — Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was…
- Genesis 35:6 — So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
- Genesis 35:7 — He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the…
- Genesis 35:8 — Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
- Genesis 35:15 — Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.