(Heb, Beon', בְּעֹן, apparently an early error of transcription for MEON (See MEON) [q.v.]; Sept. Βαιαν v. r. Βαμά ), one of the places fit for pasturage given by Joshua to the tribes on the east of Jordan (Numbers 32:3). It is elsewhere more properly called BETH-BAAL. MEON (Joshua 13:17), or more briefly BAAL-MEON (Numbers 32:38), and BETH- MEON (Jeremiah 48:23), for which this name may be a contraction.