(house of nothingness, i.e. of idols), a place on the mountains of Benjamin, east of Bethel (Joshua 7:2; 18:12), and lying between that place and Michmash (1 Samuel 13:5; 14:23). In Hosea 4:15; 5:8; 10:5 the name is transferred to the neighboring Bethel—once the “house of God” but then the house of idols of “naught.”