Bethleptepha
τοπαρχία Βεθλεπτηφῶν
Bethleptepha (τοπαρχία Βεθλεπτηφῶν), one of the ten toparchies of Judaea proper, the Bethleptephene of Pliny (5.14). It was apparently situated in the south of Judaea, and in that part which is commonly called Idumaea by Josephus (B. J. 4.8.1). Reland has remarked that the name resembles Beth-Lebaoth, a city of the tribe of Simeon (Josh. 19.6), and the situation equally corresponds.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.