Dict: smith - BETHBAALMEON

smith:

BETHBAALMEON - B>@ - (house of Baalmeon), a place in the possessions of Reuben, on the downs (Authorized Version "plain") east of the Jordan. kjv@Joshua:13:17) At the Israelites’ first approach is name was BAAL

- MEON, kjv@Numbers:32:38) or, in its contracted form, BEON kjv@Numbers:32:3) to which the Beth was possibly a Hebrew addition. Later it would seem to have come into possession of Moab, and to be known either as Beth-meon, kjv@Jeremiah:48:23) or Baal-meon. kjv@Ezekiel:25:9) The name is still attached to a ruined place of considerable size a short distance to the southwest of Hesban , and bearing the name of "the fortress of Mi’un, " or Makin .