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(Hebrews Btalah', áּòֲìָä , mistress, civitas), the name of two cities and of one mountain. SEE BAALATH.
1. (Sept. ÂááëÜè v. r. ÂáëÜ .) A city in the southern part of Judah, mentioned in connection with Beersheba and lim (Jos_15:29), apparently the same elsewhere called BALAH (Jos_19:3), also BILHAH, and assigned to Simeon (1Ch_4:29). In the firstnamed passage it forms part of the preceding name Bizjothjah-Bnalah. SEE BIZJOTHJAH.
2. (Sept. ÂááëÜè v. r. ÂáÜë , but omits in 1 Chronicles) A city on the northern border of Judah (Jos_15:10), better known as KIRJATH- JEARIM (q.v.) (Jos_15:9; 1Ch_13:6), otherwise called BAALE OF JUDAH (2Sa_6:2). In Jos_15:60; Jos_18:14, it is called KIRJATH-BAAL. From the expression “Baalah, which is Kirjath- jearim” (comp. “Jebusi, which is Jerusalem,” 18:28), it would seem as if Baalah were the earlier or Canaanite appellation of the place.
3. (Sept. ãῆ ÂááëÜè v. r. ἐðὶ ëßâá , etc.) A mountain ( äִø ) on the N.W. boundary of Judah, between Shicron and Jabneel (Jos_15:11), usually regarded as the same with Mount Jearim (Jos_15:10), from the neighboring Kirjath-baal; but erroneously (see Keil, Comment. in loc.), for the direction in the text requires a location more westerly, apparently at the modern Tell Hermes (Van de Velde, Map). SEE TRIBE.