berothah Summary and Overview

(toward the wells), Bero'-tha-i (my wells). The first of these two names is given by Ezekiel, #Eze 47:16| in connection with Hahlath and Damascus as forming part of the northern boundary of the promised land. The second is mentioned, #2Sa 8:8| in the same connection. The well-known city Beirut (Berytus) naturally suggests itself as identical with one at least of the names; but in each instance the circumstances of the case seem to require a position farther east. They were probably in the vicinity of the springs near the present Hasbeya.

BERO'THAH (my wells), one in the north of Palestine, Eze 47:16, the other in the same region, 2 Sam 8:8. The two may be the same, and possibly modern Beirut, but more probably farther east, at Brithen or Bretun, about 6 miles south-west of Baalbec.

BEROTHAI or BEROTHAH. (See BEROTHAI.)