HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1027
בֵּית הָרָם
bet ha.ram — Beth-haram
Beth-aram = "place of the height" a place in Gad Also named: bet ha.ran (בֵּית הָרָן "Beth-haran" H1028)
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Beth-aram
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
House of the height; i.e., “mountain-house”, one of the towns of Gad, 3 miles east of Jordan, opposite Jericho (Josh. 13:27). Probably the same as Beth-haran in Num. 32:36. It was called by king Herod, Julias, or Livias, after Livia, the wife of Augustus. It is now called Beit-haran.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.