Bileam
בִּלְעָם/BIL-ee-am/
“Foreigners (same Hebrew spelling as Balaam)”
☩Levitical City
Bileam was a town in the western half of Manasseh, assigned with its pasture-lands to the Kohathite Levites. It is the same place as Ibleam in Joshua 17:11, the name being a transposition of letters. It is identified with modern Bel'ameh, half a mile south of Jenin.
Key verses:1 Chronicles 6:70Joshua 17:11
References
- 1.John McClintock and James Strong, "Bileam," in Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature, vol. I (Harper & Brothers, 1867–1887).
- 2.James Orr (ed.), "Bileam," in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, vol. I (Howard-Severance Company, 1915).