BETHNIMRAH [smith]
(
house of leopards) one of the fenced cities on the east of Jordan taken and built by the tribe of Gad (
Numbers 32:36) and described as being in the valley beside Beth-haran. (
Joshua 13:27) In (
Numbers 32:3) it is called simply
NIMRAH. The name still survives in the modern
Nahr Nimrim, above Jericho on the Jordan.