בֵּית לֶחֶם
Bêyth Lechem · H1035 · Hebrew · proper noun · 82 occurrences
This name belongs to 2 places
Meanings
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Bethlehem
A town in the territory of Judah, the ancestral town of King David
ExamplesGenesis 35:19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Genesis 48:7 “Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died, to my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”
Judges 17:7 Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was staying there.
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Bethlehem
A town in the territory of Zebulun, where the judge Ibzan was born and died
ExamplesJoshua 19:15 Included also were Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.
Judges 12:8 Now Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel after him.
Judges 12:10 Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Locations003001010
- This is the name of the well-known town near which Rachel is buried in Genesis 35:19 and 48:7, and later listed among the towns of Zebulun in Joshua 19:15.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1035. Beth Lechem לֶ֫חֶם בֵּית41 proper name, of a location 1. in Judah (place of bread.…
Lechem לֶ֫חֶם בֵּית41 proper name, of a location 1. in Judah (place of bread. (food), modern Arabic , place of meat), 2 hours south of Jerusalem; birth-place of David; — לֶ֫חֶם בֵּית Rth 1:19 Rth 1:11t.; לָֿחֶם׳בּ 1Sa 20:6 1Sa 20:9t.; לָ֑חֶם בֵּית Jdg 12:8 Jdg 12:11t. + Gen 35:19; Gen 48:7, where לחם בית הוא is a gloss, see אֶפְרָ֫תָה; ׳בּ לָֿ֑חֶם 1Sa 17:15 1Sa 17:3t.; — as construct יְהוּדָה ׳בּ לֶ֫חֶם Jdg 17:7-8, Jdg 17:9; Jdg 19:1-2, Jdg 19:18 (twice in verse); Rth 1:1-2, 1Sa 17:12; treated as proper name, masculine 1Ch 2:51, 1Ch 2:54; 1Ch 4:4; men of Bethlehem בּ ׳אַנְשֵׁי Neh 7:26 = בּ ׳בְּנֵי Ezr 2:21; — on אֶפְרָ֫תָה as name of Bethlehem, & confusion arising from gloss Gen 35:19; Gen 48:7; — modern Beit Laµm, 5 miles south of Jerusalem RobBR i. 471 BdPal 123 Surveyiii. 28, 83 GuérinJudée i. 120-206.
2 לָ֑חֶם בֵּית in Zebulun Jos 19:15; perhaps also Jdg 12:8, Jdg 12:10; = Beit Laµm, 7 miles northwest of Nazareth RobBR iii. 113 Surveyi. 301.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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