Bible Location
Meaning: house of a rock · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Beth-zur was a hill-country town south of Jerusalem in Judah. It is important because it appears in the fortified southern landscape and later became known as a defensive strong point. First appears in Josh 15:58.1
AI summary: Beth-zur's significance lies in its position within Judah's elevated defensive belt. Even with brief biblical references, it appears as a place in the hill-country system that helped structure the southern approach to Jerusalem and Hebron. The cross references present Beth-zur as a rock-country town associated with strength and strategic height.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.