Beth-Nimrah

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


BETH-NIMRAH (‘place of the leopard,’ Num_32:36 etc., called Nimrah v. 3, and, some think, Nimrim Isa_15:6, see Nimrim).—A town in the territory E. of Jordan allotted to Reuben. It is represented by the modern Tell Nimrîn, 6 miles E. of the Jordan, about 10 miles N. of the Dead Sea, on the S. bank of Wâdy Shaib.
W. Ewing.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


Beth-nim'rah. (house of leopards). One of the fenced cities, on the east of Jordan, taken and built by the tribe of Gad, Num_32:36, and described as being in the valley beside, Beth-haran. Jos_13:27. In Num_32:3, it is called simply Nimrah. The name still survives in the modern Nahr Nimrim, above Jericho on the Jordan.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


beth-nim?ra (בּית נמרה, bēth nimrāh, ?house of leopard,? Num_32:36, but in Num_32:3 it is simply Nimrah): In Jos_13:27 the full name appears. In Isa_15:6 the name appears as Nimrim, identified as Tell Nimrim, between Jericho and the mountains on the east, where there is a fountain of large size. The city was assigned to Gad. In the 4th century ad it was located as five Roman miles North of Livias. Eusebius calls it Bethamnaram (SEP, I, Tell Nimrin).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Beth-nimrah
(Heb. Beyth Nimrah', בֵּית נִמְרָה, house of limpid water; Sept. ἡ Ναμβρά and Βηθναμρά, with many var. readings), one of the “fenced cities” on the east of the Jordan taken and “built” by the tribe of Gad (Num_32:36), and described as lying “‘in the valley” (בָּעֵמֶק) beside Beth-haran (Jos_13:27). In Num_32:3, it is named simply NIMRAH SEE NIMRAH (q.v.). The “Waters of Nimrim,” which are named in the denunciations of Moab by Isaiah (Isa_15:6) and Jeremiah (Jer_48:34), must, from the context, be in the same locality. SEE NIMBIM. By Eusebius and Jerome (Onom. s.v. Βηθναβράν, Bethamnaram) the village (called by them Bethnabris, Βηθναβρίς, Bethamnaris) is said to have been still standing five miles north of Livias (Beth-haran). The Talmudists call it also Beth Nimrin (בֵּית נִמְרִין, comp. Targum on Num_32:3) or Beth-Namer (בֵּית נָמֵר,? panther-house,” Peah, 4, 5; comp. Schwarz, p. 232). The name still survives in the Nahr- Nimrin, the Arab appellation of the lower end of the Wady Shoaib, where the waters of that valley discharge themselves into the Jordan close to one of the regular fords a few miles above Jericho (Burckhardt, Syria, p. 355). It has been seen by Seetzen (Reisen, 1854, 2:318) and Robinson (Researches, 2, 279), but does not appear to have been explored, and all that is known is that the vegetation is very thick, betokening an abundance of water. The Wady Shoaib runs back up into the eastern mountains as far as es-Salt. Its name (the modern form of Hobab?) connects it with the wanderings of the children of Israel, and a tradition still clings to the neighborhood that it was down this valley they descended to the Jordan (Seetzen, 2:377).
It seems to have escaped notice how nearly the requirements of BETHABARA SEE BETHABARA (q.v.) are met in the circumstances of Bethnimrah — its abundance of water and its situation close to “the region round about Jordan” (ἡ περίχωρος τοῦ Ι᾿ορδάνου, i.e. the CICCAR of the O.T., the Oasis of Jericho), immediately accessible to “Jerusalem and all Judaea” (Joh_1:28; Mat_3:5; Mar_1:5) by the direct and ordinary road from the capital. Add to this that in the Sept. the name of Bethnimrah is found very nearly assuming the form of Bethabara — Βαιθαναβρά, Βηθαβρά, Βεθαραβά (see Holmes and Parsons' text).
Beth-nimrah
This site, the present Nimrin, is thus described by Prof. Merrill (East of the Jordan, p. 384): “The ruins cover a considerable space, and the location is an excellent one for a city. The stream which flows past the place is perhaps the largest on that side of the Jordan south of the Zerka, and to it I refer the ‘waters of Nimrim' mentioned in Isa_15:6 and Jer_48:34.”



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