noun · feminine
bēthfagē
Strong’sG967
Bethphage
stem bēthfag-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
Βηθφαγή (L, -γῆ), ἡ, indecl.
(Aram. בֵּית־פַּגֵּי, house of unripe figs; Dalman, Gr., 191),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G967 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbayth-fag-ay'
fig-house; Beth-phage, a place in Palestine
Fromof Chaldee origin (compare and );
King JamesBethphage.
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
Bethphage:
(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.
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 | bēthfagē | bēthfagē |
| object accusative | bēthfagē3×Βηθφαγὴ | bēthfagē |
| direct address vocative | bēthfagē | bēthfagē |
| of, belonging to genitive | bēthfagē | bēthfagē |
| to, for dative | bēthfagē | bēthfagē |
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
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
bēthfagē“Bethphage”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 21:1… engizala eis Hierosolumeim kai erchala eis Bēthfagē eis tem Orem taiu Elaiaiu, tote …… they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus …
Mark 11:1Kai hote engizalō eis Hierosolumeim eis Bēthfagē kai Bēthanian pros tem Orem taiu …… they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of …
Luke 19:29Kai geneta hōs engizata eis Bēthfagē kai Bēthanian pros tem orem tem …As He approached Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of …