The village was situated on flat land on the western slopes of the Hebron mountains, and its houses were built of stone and mud, located in a fortified position on the slope of one of the valleys. Olive groves extended across the valley to the north. Bayt Jibrin was a commercial center and a service facility for the villages in the region.

It is worth noting that Bayt Jibrin was heavily bombarded at the beginning of Operation Yoav on October 15-16, 1948, and it was occupied in the final stage of the operation on the twenty-eighth of the same month. In 1949, the settlement of Beit Guvrin was established on the village's lands, and today all that remains of the village is a mosque, an unnamed shrine, and some houses.