A city in the territory of Issachar (Joshua 19:21), mentioned alongside En-Haddah and En-Gannim. The name combines bayit (house) with patsats (H6327), to disperse or shatter.
The detailed city lists of Joshua 13–21 represent more than administrative geography — they are covenant fulfillment in spatial form. Every city name, however obscure, marks the exact territory God promised and delivered to His people. Israel's God is not a God of vague spiritual blessings but of specific covenantal provision: these hills, these valleys, these border cities. The tribal allotments are a type of the new creation's inheritance — "the meek will inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5) — where every saint will receive a specific, named, eternal portion in the new Jerusalem's territory.