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( ÂçîÝè ), a place at which Bacchides encamped after leaving Jerusalem, and where there was i a ‘ great pit” ( ôὸ öñÝáñ ôὸ ìÝãá , 1Ma_7:19). By Josephus (Ant. 12, 10, 2) the name is given (in the account parallel with 1Ma_9:4) as “the village Beth-zetho” ( êώìç Âçèæçèὼ ëåãïìÝíç ), which recalls the name applied to the Mount of Olives in the early Syriac recension of the N.T. published by Mr. Cureton-Beth-Zaith (which, however, is simply a translation of the name = Hebrew áֵּéú æִéִú , olive-house). The name may thus refer either to the main body of the Mount of Olives, or to the eminence opposite it to the! north of Jerusalem, which at a later period was called BEZETHA SEE BEZETHA (q.v.). Pococke (East, II, 1, 19) speaks of seeing “a long cistern” in this quarter of the city, and several tanks are delineated here on modern plans of Jerusalem.
Bezeth
(1Ma_7:19) is considered by Lieut. Conder (Tent-work, 2, 335) as the modern Beit Zdta; but he gives no further details.