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Beth-haram, a Gadite town east of Jordan (= Beth-haran)

Beth-haran, a fortified Gadite city (= Beth-haram)

Beth-shittah, a town toward which Midianites fled (place of the acacia)

Beth-car, a place marking the limit of Israelite pursuit of Philistines

and Beth-lebaoth, a Simeonite town (house of lionesses)

in Beth-le-aphrah, a town in Philistia where rolling in dust mourns

Beth-azmaveth, a town near Jerusalem (= Azmaveth)

and Beth-anoth, a hill-country town in Judah

and Beth-pazzez, a town in Issachar (house of dispersion)

Beth-rapha, listed as a descendant (or settlement) in Judah's genealogy

and Beth-tappuah, a hill-country town in Judah (house of apples)

Baca, a valley name (possibly balsam trees, or weeping)

weeping (noun), great weeping of the people

Becorath, ancestor of Saul (meaning 'first-born')

his weeping, the days of weeping for him (mourning period)

young camels of (construct plural), young dromedaries

young she-camel, dromedary (Arabic cognate: young female camel, valued for speed and vigor)

first-ripe fig, early fig (a delicacy, appearing before main harvest)

the Becherite (gentilic adjective: descendant of Becher, son of Ephraim)

mind, heart, attention (Aramaic noun for mental faculty or concern)

to wear out, wear away, harass continually (Piel: intensively exhaust or oppress)

Bilgai (personal name: priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah)

Balah (place name: town in the territory of Simeon, possibly same as Baalah)

to trouble, disturb, frighten (Piel participle: those troubling them in building)

Bilhah (place name: town in Simeon, likely same as Baalah and Balah)

to curb, hold in, restrain (used of controlling animals with bit and bridle)

to gather figs, tend sycamore trees (technical term for nipping sycamore fruit to ripen it)

the Belaite (gentilic: descendant of Bela, son of Benjamin)

Bileam (place name: Levitical town in Manasseh, same as Ibleam)

Belshazzar (personal name: last Babylonian king in Daniel, son of Nabonidus)

high place (cultic worship site, often illicit; also poetically mountaintop or elevated terrain)

Bimhal (personal name: descendant of Asher)

Ben (personal name: Levite musician, possibly shortened form; Septuagint omits)

Ben-Oni (personal name: 'son of my sorrow,' Rachel's name for Benjamin before she died)

Ben-Zoheth (personal name: member of Judah's tribe, possibly 'son of Zoheth')

Ben-Hail (personal name: 'son of might/valor,' prince under Jehoshaphat who taught the law)

Ben-Hanan (personal name: 'son of the gracious one,' member of Judah's tribe)

Ben-Hesed (personal name: 'son of mercy/kindness,' one of Solomon's twelve district officers)

Bene-Berak (place name: 'sons of lightning,' town in Dan's territory)

building, structure (feminine noun for constructed edifice)

building (Aramaic masculine noun for edifice or construction)

Beninu (personal name: 'our son,' Levite who sealed Nehemiah's covenant)

to be angry, enraged (Aramaic verb for becoming furious)

Ben-Ammi (personal name: 'son of my people,' Lot's son by his younger daughter, ancestor of Ammonites)

Besodeiah (personal name: 'in the secret/counsel of Yah,' helped repair Jerusalem's wall)

unripe grapes, sour grapes (collectively: grapes not yet ripened or sweet)

ruin, heap of ruins (poetic term for devastation and desolation)

Baal-Hamon (place name: 'possessor of abundance,' location of Solomon's vineyard in Song of Songs)

Baal-Hazor (place name: 'possessor of a court/village,' site where Absalom killed Amnon)

owner, lord, husband, master (common noun denoting possessor or one having authority)