STRONGS NUMBER H1044


Word Summary
Beth-eqed: "house of binding", a place in Palestine
Original Word: בֵּית עֵקֶד
Transliteration: Beth-eqed
Phonetic Spelling: (bayth ay'-ked)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: "house of binding", a place in Palestine
Meaning: Beth-eked -- "house of binding", a place in Palestine
Strong's Concordance
shearing house

From bayith and a derivative of aqad; house of (the) binding (for sheep-shearing); Beth-Eked, a place in Palestine -- shearing house.

see HEBREW bayith

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1044. Beth

-eqed הָרֹעִים בֵּיתעֵֿ֫קֶד‎ perhaps proper name, of a location (binding-house of the shepherds) 2 Kings 10:12; compare 10:14 ׳עֿ׳בּ בּוֺר‎; Bethacath Jerome LagOnom. 107. 17. 2nd ed. 141; — modern Beit Kâd near Mt Gilboa (Fu‡u±a) according to Surveyii. 83; but compare בַּיִת1

עֵ֫קֶדnoun [masculine] ? binding, compare ע ׳בֵּית הָרֹעִים‎.

II. עקד‎ (√ of following; usually identified with I, whence עָקֹדstriped with bands, but dubious; LagBN 31 vocalizesעָקֹד‎).