house of expulsion
(same as Beth-phelet)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Beth-pa'let. (house of flight). A town among those, in the extreme south of Judah, named in Jos_15:27.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
beth-pā?let. See BETH-PELET.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Beth-palet
(Heb. Beyth Pellet, בֵּית פֶּלֶט, house of escape, but found only in pause, Beyth Pallet, בֵּית פּ לֶט[or בֵּיתאּ]; Sept. Βηθφέλεθ and Βηθφαλάτ or Βαιθφαλάθ), one of the towns in the extreme south of Judah (i.e. assigned to Simeon), named between Heshmon and Hazar-shual (Jos_15:27), and inhabited after the captivity (Neh_11:26, where it is Anglicized Beth-phelet). It corresponds possibly to the considerable ruin on Tell el-Kuseifeh (Robinson's Researches, 2, 620), a short distance N.E. of Moladah (Van de Velde, Map).
Beth-palet
Lieut. Conder suggests (Quarterly Statement of the Pal. Explor. Fund, January, 1875, p. 26) that from position it might very well correspond to el-Hora (drawing of water), a place remarkable for its number of cisterns and reservoirs, the buildings being of flint throughout.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.