BELMAIM (Jdt_4:4; Jdt_7:3).It seems to have lain south of Dothan, but the topography of Judith is very difficult. Bileam in Manasseh lay farther north than Dothan.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
bel?mā̇-im, the King James Version Belmen (Βελμαίμ, Belmaı́m, Judith 7:3; Βαιλμαίν, Bailmaı́n, 4:4): A place in the neighborhood of Dothan (Judith 7:3), to which warning was sent to prepare for the invasion of Holofernes (Judith 4:4). It probably answers to the modern Bı̄r Bil‛āmeh (Ibleam), a ruined site about half a mile (South of Jenı̄n.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Belmaim
(Βελθέμ v. r. Βελβαίμ, Vulg. Belma) a place which, from the terms of the passage, would appear to have been south of Dothaim (Jdt_7:3). Possibly it is the same as BELMEN SEE BELMEN (q.v.), though whether this is the case, or, indeed, whether either of them ever had any real existence, it is at present impossible to determine. SEE JUDITH. The Syriac has Abel-mechola.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.