the ancient of the people; the devourer
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
BILEAM (1Ch_6:70).A Levitical city of Manasseh, the same as Ibleam of Jos_17:11, Jdg_1:27, 2Ki_9:27 : prob. the mod. Belame (see Moore on Jdg_1:27).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A town in the western half of Manasseh, given to the Kohathites (1Ch_6:70). IBLEAM is the same name by transposition of letters (Jos_17:11); GATH-RIMMON in Jos_21:24.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Bil'eam. (foreigners). A town, in the western half of the tribe of Manasseh, named only in 1Ch_6:70. Same as Ibleam and Gath-rimmon. Jos_17:11 and Jos_21:24.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
bil?ē̇-am (בּלעם, bil‛ām; Ιβλαάμ, Iblaám): A town in the territory of Manasseh assigned to the Kohathite Levites (1Ch_6:70), probably the same as Ibleam (Jos_17:11, etc.), and identical with the modern Bel‛āmeh, half a mile South of Jenı̄n.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Bileam
(Heb. Bilam', בַּלְעָם, same name as Balaam [q.v.]; Sept. Ι᾿εμβλάαν v. r. Ι᾿βλαάμ; Vulg. Baalam), a town in the western half of the tribe of Manasseh, named in 1Ch_6:70 as being given (with its "suburbs") to the Kohathites. In the lists in Joshua 17, 21 this name does not appear, but IBLEAM SEE IBLEAM (q.v.) and SEE GATH-RIMMON are substituted for it, the former by an easy change of letters, the latter uncertain. SEE BELAMON (Βελαμών) of Jdt_8:3.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.