{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H1008",
  "lemma": "בֵּית־אֵל",
  "transliteration": "Bêyth-ʼÊl",
  "definition": "Beth-El, a place in Palestine",
  "kjv": "Beth-el.",
  "occurrences": 144,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H1004",
      "lemma": "בַּיִת",
      "transliteration": "bayith",
      "meaning": "a house",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H1004"
    },
    {
      "id": "H410",
      "lemma": "אֵל",
      "transliteration": "ʼêl",
      "meaning": "strength",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H410"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 12:8",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 13:3",
      "text": "He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 28:19",
      "text": "He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 31:13",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 35:1",
      "text": "God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 35:3",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 35:6",
      "text": "So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 35:7",
      "text": "He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 35:8",
      "text": "Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 35:15",
      "text": "Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=15"
    }
  ],
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