# H1008 בֵּית־אֵל

בֵּית־אֵל (Bêyth-ʼÊl), Strong’s H1008: Beth-El, a place in Palestine KJV: Beth-el.. Occurs 144 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H1008 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*Bêyth-ʼÊl* — Beth-El, a place in Palestine

KJV: Beth-el.

Built from [בַּיִת bayith](https://besorah.bible/word/H1004) (a house) + [אֵל ʼêl](https://besorah.bible/word/H410) (strength) — means “house of God”

Occurs 144 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=19) — He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
- [Genesis 31:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=15) — Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.