Hebrew word · H1029

בֵּית הַשִּׁטָּה

hashitah

Beth-shittah

Appears 2 times in 1 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

§ Beth-shittah = "house of the acacia tree" or "place of the acacia"

an unknown location, perhaps an acacia grove

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Judges · 2

  1. Judges 7:22 בֵּ֤ית הַשִּׁטָּה֙ Beth, <of the> Shittah

    And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.

    Here: First part of the place name Beth-hashittah, 'place of the acacia'. The site is unknown, probably down the Harod valley toward the Jordan.

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