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Beth Barah
BETH BARAH (bĕth' bâr'a, Heb. bethbarah, house of the ford). One of the important fords of the Jordan, identified by some with Beth Arabah. The Midianites were expected to use it as they escaped from Gideon, thus Gideon’s instruction to his messengers to “seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah” (
BETH-BARAH bĕth bâr’ ə (Heb. בֵּ֥ית בָּרָ֖ה, town of fords), mentioned only in
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
Perhaps Beth-`abharu, the guttural being lost in copying. It is a ford which the Midianites were expected to pass in fleeing from Gideon. Messengers were therefore sent by Gideon to the Ephraimites bidding them "take before them the waters, as far as Beth-barah, even (the Revised Version, margin "and also") the Jordan" (
See Bethabara.