Betomasthem (
Greek
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: Βαıτομασθαίμ, ''Baitomasthaim'')
[.] or Betomestham (Βετομεσθαίμ, ''Betomesthaim'')
[.] is an unidentified town from the
Book of Judith
The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. It tells ...
.
Betomasthem is a place mentioned only in the
apocryphal
Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin. The word ''apocryphal'' (ἀπόκρυφος) was first applied to writings which were kept secret because they were the vehicles of esoteric knowledge considered ...
Book of Judith, as a town "over against
Esdraelon
The Jezreel Valley (from the he, עמק יזרעאל, Romanization of Hebrew, translit. ''ʿĒmeq Yīzrəʿēʿl''), or Marj Ibn Amir ( ar, مرج ابن عامر), also known as the Valley of Megiddo, is a large fertile plain and inland valley ...
, facing the plain that is near Dothaim",
and in the vicinity of "Bebai, Chobai, and Cola, in the coasts of Israel".
From the manner of its mention, it would seem to have been of equal importance with
Bethulia
Bethulia (, ''Baituloua''; Hebrew: בתוליה) is a biblical "city whose deliverance by Judith, when besieged by Holofernes, forms the subject of the Book of Judith."
Etymology
The name "Bethulia" in Hebrew can be associated, in an allegoric ...
itself, but it is doubtful whether it indicates any historical locality whatever. It can hardly be Deir Massīn, which lies west of "the plain that is near Dothan". The district is clearly indicated, but no identification has been possible.
[Orr, ed. 1915, p. 454.]
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Ancient Israel and Judah
Places in the deuterocanonical books
Book of Judith