# H1020 בֵּית הַיְשִׁימוֹת

בֵּית הַיְשִׁימוֹת (Bêyth ha-Yshîy-môwth), Strong’s H1020: Beth-ha-Jeshimoth, a town East of the Jordan KJV: Beth-jeshimoth.. Occurs 8 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H1020 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*Bêyth ha-Yshîy-môwth* — Beth-ha-Jeshimoth, a town East of the Jordan

KJV: Beth-jeshimoth.

Built from [בַּיִת bayith](https://besorah.bible/word/H1004) (a house) + [יְשִׁימַה yᵉshîymah](https://besorah.bible/word/H3451) (desolation) — means “house of the deserts”

Occurs 8 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בֵּית הַיְשִׁימוֹת n.pr.loc. E. of Jordan (place of the desert) in Moab; given to Reuben

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 33:49](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/33?v=49) — They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.
- [Joshua 12:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/12?v=3) — and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way…
- [Joshua 13:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/13?v=20) — Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,
- [Ezekiel 25:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/25?v=9) — therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on its frontiers, the glory…