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("wells".) One of the four Hivite cities (the others being Gibeon, Chephirah, and Kirjath Jearim: ), which obtained peace with Joshua by false pretenses. Allotted to Benjamin (). Ishbosheth's murderers Baanah and Rechab, and their father Rimmon, belonged to it. Its original occupants repaired to the Philistine Gittaim (; -3; ). The men of Beeroth were among those who returned from Babylon (). Now El-bireh, on the road to Nablus, ten miles N. of Jerusalem, below a ridge bounding the northward view. The traditional site of Jesus' parents not finding Him in their company (-45). The usual halt at the first day's close for caravans going N. from Jerusalem. Naharai, one of David's mighty men, was a Beerothite ().