BETH-ARABAH (place of the Arabah [wh. see], Jos_15:6; Jos_15:61; Jos_18:22).A place in the Jericho plain, apparently north of Beth-hoglah, in the wilderness. The name has not been recovered.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Jos_15:6; Jos_15:61. One of the six cities of Judah, situated in the Arabah or sunken valley of the Jordan and the Dead Sea; between Bethhoglah and the high land on the W. Included in Benjamin (Jos_18:22).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Beth-ar'abah. (house of the desert). One of the six cities of Judah, which were situated down in the Arabah, the sunk valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea, Jos_15:61, on the north border of the tribe. It is also included in the list of the towns of Benjamin. Jos_18:22.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
beth-ar?a-ba (בּית הערבה, bēth hā-‛ărābhāh; Βαιθαραβά, Baitharabá, ?place of the Arabah?):
(1) One of the 6 cities of Judah ?in the wilderness? (Jos_15:61), on the borders of Benjamin and Judah (Jos_15:6; Jos_18:18 Septuagint). ?The wilderness of Judah? is the barren land West of the Dead Sea. Beth-arabah is not yet identified.
(2) One of the cities of Benjamin (Jos_18:22). Septuagint (Codex Vaticanus) reads Baithabara, and this may be correct. The names are early confounded. See BETHABARA.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Beth-arabah
(Heb. Beyth ha-Arabah', הָעֲרָבָה בֵּית, house of the desert; Sept. Βηθάραβα v. r. Βαιθαραβά and Θαραβαάμ; in Jos_18:22, Βηθαβαρά v. r. Βαιθαβαρά), one of the six cities of Judah which were situated in the Arabah, i.e. the sunk valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea (wilderness, Jos_15:61), on the north border of the tribe, and apparently between Beth-hoglah and the high land on the west of the Jordan valley (Jos_15:6). It was afterward included in the list of the towns of Benjamin (Jos_18:22). It is elsewhere (Jos_18:18) called simply ARABAH SEE ARABAH (q.v.). It seems to be extant in the ruins called Kusr Hajla, a little south-west of the site of Beth-hoglah (q.v.).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.