bet-da.gon is a proper place name appearing in a city list and in a boundary description.

The term is used as a proper place name: it occurs among named cities in Joshua 15:41 and as a point reached in a boundary description in Joshua 19:27.

1. Proper place name in geographic descriptions · dominant

   Both occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper. In Joshua 15:41 the APB renders it among a list of cities, while in Joshua 19:27 the APB renders it as the place to which the boundary returned eastward.

   Joshua 15:41Joshua 19:27

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “Beth-dagon” in both verses: once in a city list and once within a boundary route. The verse is read as a whole, but its presentation agrees with the supplied Proper-noun morphology.