Baalah
baalah
mistress; city. (1.) a city in the south of judah (josh. 15:29), elsewhere called balah (josh. 19:3) and bilhah (1 chr. 4:29). now khurbet zebalah. (2.) a city on the northern border of the tribe of judah (josh. 15:10), called also kirjath-jearim, q.v. (15:9; 1 chr. 13:6), now kuriet-el-enab, or as some think, ‘erma. (3.) a mountain on the north-western boundary of judah and dan (josh. 15:11).
historical examples
king david undertook to move the ark from baalah,—called also kirjathjearim, where it had remained many years.
the gospel: an exposition of its first principles brigham henry roberts
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