No one in the Bible is named Beth. As an English name, Beth is a short form of Elizabeth. As a Hebrew word, beth means “house,” and it begins many place names in the Bible, among them Bethlehem, “house of bread,” and Bethel, “house of God.” What does Beth mean in Hebrew? The Hebrew word for a house is bayit. When it is joined to another word, as in “house of God,” it takes the shorter form beth, also written…

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