Beth-aram

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Beth-aram
     house of the height; i.e., "mountain-house", one of the towns of
     Gad, 3 miles east of Jordan, opposite Jericho (Josh. 13:27).
     Probably the same as Beth-haran in Num. 32:36. It was called by
     king Herod, Julias, or Livias, after Livia, the wife of
     Augustus. It is now called Beit-haran.


     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Beth-aram, house of height