HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H416
אֵל בֵּית־אֵל
el bet-el — El-bethel
§ El Bethel = "The God of the House of God" the place where God revealed Himself to Jacob
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El-Bethel
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
God of Bethel, the name of the place where Jacob had the vision of the ladder, and where he erected an altar (Gen. 31:13; 35:7).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.