Place
Beth Arabah
town in the wilderness of Judah
Wilderness town on the Judah-Benjamin border near the Dead Sea, listed in both tribes' territorial allotments in Joshua.
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A town on the border between and , situated in the wilderness region near the northern end of the and the lower valley. Beth Arabah appears in both the Judahite boundary description ( 15:6, 61) and the Benjaminite town list (Joshua 18:22), indicating it fell at the meeting point of the two tribes' territories. Its name, meaning "house of the Arabah," reflects its desert setting, and it is associated with the wilderness of Judah in the tribal allotment texts. No narrative events are recorded at Beth Arabah.
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