noun · feminine

bēthesda

GreekΒηθεσδά (bēthesda)

Strong’sG964

Bethesda

stem bēthesd-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Bethzatha,1×

What it means

Βηθεσδά, ἡ, indecl.

(deriv. uncertain, v. Westc. on Jo 5:2, and DB, i, 279),

Bethesda, a pool in Jerusalem: Jo 5:2, Rec. (Βηθζαθά, WH, Βηθσαϊδά, WH, mg.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G964 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbay-thes-dah'

house of kindness; Beth-esda, a pool in Jerusalem

Fromof Chaldee origin (compare and );

King JamesBethesda.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	bēthesda1×Βηθεσδά	bēthesda
object accusative	bēthesda	bēthesda
direct address vocative	bēthesda	bēthesda
of, belonging to genitive	bēthesda	bēthesda
to, for dative	bēthesda	bēthesda

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

bēthesdastem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

bēthesda“Bethzatha,”subjectnominative singular1×

John 5:2“Bethzatha,”atō de en tei Hierosolumei epi ta probatika kolumbēthras tas epilegirōtas Hebraisti Bēthesda, pente stoain echarōtas;Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.