bet a.nat is a proper name used for a city listed among settlements and named in a report of its inhabitants.

The term is consistently a proper name for a place: Joshua 19:38 includes it in a list of cities, while Judges 1:33 names its inhabitants in relation to Naphtali's failure to dispossess them.

1. Place name in city lists and settlement reports · dominant

   Both occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper. In Joshua 19:38 the APB renders it within a list of cities and villages; in Judges 1:33 the APB renders it as a place whose inhabitants remained in the land and became subject to forced labor.

   Joshua 19:38Judges 1:33

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as "Beth-anath" in both verses: first in a city list and then in the phrase "the inhabitants of Beth-anath." The verse is read as a whole, but its place-name presentation agrees across the two clauses.