King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H1268
Transliteration: Berothah
Phonetic Spelling: (bay-ro-thaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a place near Hamath
Meaning: Berothah -- a place near Hamath
Word Summary
Berothah: a place near Hamath
Original Word: בֵּרוֹתָהTransliteration: Berothah
Phonetic Spelling: (bay-ro-thaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a place near Hamath
Meaning: Berothah -- a place near Hamath
Strong's Concordance
Berothah, Berothai Or Berothay {bay-ro-that'-ee}; probably from browth; cypress or cypresslike; Berothah or Berothai, a place north of Palestine -- Berothah, Berothai.
see HEBREW browth
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H1268. Berothah
בֵּרוֺ֫תָה proper name, of a location near Hamath Ezekiel 47:16 (contracted from בְּאֵרוֺתָה ?), compare following; — hardly = Berytus (Beirût) with which form of name might agree see Steph. Byzant. and others in MoversPhen. ii. 1. 110 n.; perhaps Bereit¹n near Baalbek, see FurrerZPV viii. 34.
בֵּרֹתַי proper name, of a location belonging to Hadadezer of Zoba 2 Samuel 8:8; perhaps = foregoing.