A city in northern Moab given to the tribe of Reuben (Numbers 32:38; 1 Chronicles 5:8).
It is called Beth-baal-meon in Joshua 13:17, Beth-meon in Jeremiah 48:23, and Beon in Numbers 32:3. In around 830 BC it was owned by Mesha, the king of Moab. By the sixth century BC, it was still owned by the Moabites (Jeremiah 48:23; Ezekiel 25:9). It may have briefly been in Israelite possession during the eighth century BC.