BETH-CAR bĕth kär’ (Heb. בֵּ֥ית כָּֽר), a place name mentioned only in 1 Samuel 7:11 in the context of Israel’s victory over the Philistines, it must have stood between Mizpah and the Mediterranean Sea. It was located in the tribe of Benjamin and means “house-of-pasturage,” but the identification with Arab. Khirbet-heir has nothing to recommend it and is of undoubted Arab. origin. Confusion exists in the VSS. The LXX reads Gr. Βαιθχορ, substituting for the better known Beth-horon (Josh 10:10 et al.). The Syriac and other Semitic VSS retain some form of the MT reading.