Word

Βηθλεέμ

Bēthleém · G965 · Greek · 8 occurrences

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Place

Bethlehemfirst named in Genesis 35:1932 verses

Meanings

Bethlehem

A town south of Jerusalem

Examples
Luke 2:4 Now Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,
Luke 2:15 When the angels had departed from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, “Let’s go straight to Bethlehem, then, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
John 7:42 “Has the Scripture not said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἸουδαίαJudea 2

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 3 groups

γῆearth 1
κώμηvillage 1
παῖςservant, child 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἔπωto say 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὅστιςwhoever, whichever, whatever 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 4 groups

ἐνin 4
εἰςto 2
ἕωςuntil, to, as far as 2
ἀπόfrom 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

In the other Testament 1 word

בֵּית לֶחֶם Bêyth Lechem · H1035 · Bethlehem: The Hebrew name of Bethlehem behind the Greek form of the name.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Bethlehem93.431: The proper name of the town in Judea where Jesus is born, as of the magi arriving after Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Matthew 2:1 and the prophetic naming of Bethlehem in Matthew 2:6.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἡ (indecl) (in Josephus not only so (Antiquities 8, 10, 1), but also Βηθλημη, Βηθλημης,…

ἡ (indecl) (in Josephus not only so (Antiquities 8, 10, 1), but also Βηθλημη, Βηθλημης, Antiquities 6, 8, 1; 11, 7; (7, 1, 3); ἀπό Βηθλεμων, 5, 2, 8; ἐκ Βηθλημων, 5, 9, 1; (cf. 7, 13; 9, 2)), Bethlehem (לֶחֶם בֵּית house of bread), a little town, named from the fertility of its sort, six Roman miles south of Jerusalem; now Beit Lachm, with about 3,000 ("5,000," Baedeker) inhabitants: Mt 2:1, Mt 2:5f, 8, 16; Lk 2:4, Lk 2:15; Jn 7:42. Cf. Winers RWB, under the word; Robinson i., p. 470ff; Raumer, p. 313ff; Tobler, Bethlehem in Palastina as above with 1849; (Socin (i. e. Baedeker), Handbook. etc., under the word; Porter (i. e. Murray) ibid.; BB. DD.).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Places8 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0