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( ÂåñÝá ), a place in Judea apparently not very far from Jerusalem, where Bacchides, the general of Demetrius, encamped shortly before the engagement in which Judas Maccabaeus was slain (1Ma_9:4). Other copies, however, read Berzath ( ÂåçñæÜè , ÂåçñèÜæ , Âçñæήè , etc., see Grimm, in loc.), from in which Reland conjectures (Palaest. p. 624) that it may be the BEZETH (q.v.) of 1Ma_7:19, especially as Josephus, in his parallel account (Ant. 12, 11, 4), calls the place in question Bethzetho ( Âçèæçèώ , Ant. 12, II, 1; compo. 10, 2). SEE BEROEA.
Berea
(1Ma_9:4). Lieut. Conder (Tent Work, ii, 335) proposes to identify this place with Bireh, which, however, has long since been settled as the site of Beeroth.