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Beth-anath
House of response, one of the fenced cities of Naphtali (Josh 19:38). It is perhaps identical with the modern village ‘Ainata, 6 miles west of Kedesh.
Named in the Bible
2 verses
- Joshua 19:38 And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
- Judges 1:33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.