Definition

Bealoth, a place in Palestine

Etymology

plural of H1172 (בַּעֲלָה); mistresses;

Where the KJV renders it

• Bealoth
• in Aloth (by mistake for a plural from H5927 (עָלָה) with prepositional prefix)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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