Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'beth' occurs 225 times in the standard works.

112 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'beth' in the standard works and contain 49.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 44 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 6:12-15 (5 in 4 verses)

Judg. 1:33 (4 in 1 verse)

Josh. 18:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:32-13:1 (4 in 3 verses)

Josh. 18:19-22 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 4:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 2:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 48:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Amos 5:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)


Gen. 35:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

 35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him.

 35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

 35:8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.




Josh. 16:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 7:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 17:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 6:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 23:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 11:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 12:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 13:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 32:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 7:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 19:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 19:38 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 19:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 21:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ruth 1:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 2:51 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 4:31 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 8:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 35:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 10:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:58-59 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 19:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 19:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 1:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 19:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ruth 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 20:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 7:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 11:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 10:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 225 25 250
Gen. 15 9 24
Num. 3 0 3
Deut. 3 0 3
Josh. 49 3 52
Judg. 23 0 23
Ruth 7 0 7
1 Sam. 27 0 27
2 Sam. 10 0 10
1 Kgs. 17 5 22
2 Kgs. 13 0 13
1 Chr. 17 1 18
2 Chr. 9 1 10
Ezra 2 1 3
Neh. 7 2 9
Esth. 0 1 1
Prov. 0 1 1
Song. 0 1 1
Jer. 7 0 7
Ezek. 1 0 1
Hosea 6 0 6
Amos 7 0 7
Micah 2 0 2
NT 0 43 43
BM 0 1 1
DC 0 1 1
PGP 0 3 3
TOTAL 225 73 298

Gen. 12:8
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.

Gen. 13:3
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;

Gen. 22:22
And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

Gen. 22:23
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

Gen. 24:15
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

Gen. 24:24
And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.

Gen. 24:47
And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.

Gen. 24:50
Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

Gen. 25:20
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

Gen. 28:2
Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

Gen. 28:5
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

Gen. 28:19
And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

Gen. 31:13
I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.

Gen. 35:1
And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

Gen. 35:3
And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

Gen. 35:6
So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him.

Gen. 35:7
And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

Gen. 35:8
But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.

Gen. 35:15
And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.

Gen. 35:16
And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

Gen. 35:19
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.

Gen. 48:7
And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.