bēthesda

Strong’sG964

Bethesda

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

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

Βηθεσδά, ἡ, indecl. (deriv. uncertain, see Westc. on Jhn.5:2, and DB, i, 279),
Bethesda, a pool in Jerusalem: Jhn.5:2, Rec. (Βηθζαθά, WH, Βηθσαϊδά, WH, mg.).†
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

Bethzatha,1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

bēthesda“Bethzatha,”subjectnominative singular1×

John 5:2“Bethzatha,”… ta probatika kolumbēthras tas epilegorōntas Hebraisti Bēthesda, pente stoain echarōntas;… Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.