בֵּר֫וֹתָה
be.ro.tah
Berothah
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Berothah: A Place Name in Biblical Geography Based on the lexical data provided, Berothah (בְרוֹתָה) is a proper noun designating a specific geographic location in the biblical text. The lemma appears only once in the Hebrew Bible, making it a hapax legomenon—a word that occurs in isolation without parallel instances that might clarify its meaning or establish broader usage patterns. The single occurrence of Berothah prevents any detailed analysis of its semantic range or contextual significance. Without additional lexical data such as the specific biblical passage in which it appears, its geographic coordinates, or its relationship to other place names, we cannot determine whether it was a city, region, or other type of location, nor can we establish its historical or theological importance to the biblical narrative. The limited occurrence suggests it may have been a minor settlement or a location of peripheral importance to the biblical authors' primary concerns. The rarity of this toponym in the biblical corpus leaves substantial questions unanswered that would require consulting the source text itself rather than relying solely on lexical definitions.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
1 total occurrence across the text