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BAALATH-BEER
Place-name meaning “mistress” or “lady of the well.” Like the masculine counterpart Baal, Baalath often appears in a compound place-name. It seems to suggest that the Canaanite goddess Baalath, patron of Byblos, was associated with the particular place or well. Baalath-beer was the name of a town in Simeon’s tribe, also identified as Baal or Baalath (1 Chr 4:33), Ramah of the Negev (Jos 19:8), and Ramoth of the Negev (1 Sm 30:27). It may have marked the southern limits of Simeon’s inheritance.