BETH-NIMRAH bĕth nĭm’ ra (בֵּ֥ית נִמְרָ֖ה, LXX Josh 13:27 Βαιθαναβρα; LXX has a variety of spellings in Num 32:3, 36; house of a leopard). One of the cities of Heshbon which was assigned to Reuben and Gad. It was built up (or rebuilt) by the Gadites, fortified, and made suitable for keeping sheep (Josh 13:27; Num 32:36). The ancient city is identified as Tell Bleibil ten m. NE of Jericho on the N side of the Wadi Shaib. The city was later moved c. one m. to the SW where the name is preserved in Tell Nimrin.

Bibliography N. Glueck, “Some Ancient towns in the Plains of Moab,” BASOR, XCI (1943), 12.