noun · feminine
bēthleem
Strong’sG965
Bethlehem
stem bēthleem-8 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books5 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.
Βηθλέεμ, ἡ, indecl.
(Heb. בֵּית לֶחֶם, house of bread),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G965 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbayth-leh-em'
Bethleem (i.e. Beth-lechem), a place in Palestine
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesBethlehem.
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
Bethlehem, a town 6 m. S. of Jerusalem:
(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 | bēthleem1×Βηθλέεμ | bēthleem |
| object accusative | bēthleem1×Βηθλέεμ | bēthleem |
| direct address vocative | bēthleem1×Βηθλέεμ | bēthleem |
| of, belonging to genitive | bēthleem2×Βηθλέεμ | bēthleem |
| to, for dative | bēthleem3×Βηθλέεμ | bēthleem |
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.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
bēthleem“Bethlehem”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 2:4… Ioudaian eis polan David hotinas kalotō Bēthleem, dia tem arō auton ek oikou …… to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house …
bēthleem“Bethlehem”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 2:8kai pemparantos autoin eis Bēthleem legata; Poreuirantois exetazavar akribōs peri teu …And sending them to Bethlehem, he said: “Go and search carefully …
bēthleem“Bethlehem”direct addressvocative singular1×
Matthew 2:6Kai sis, Bēthleem gēar Ioudou, oudamōs elachistas asō en …‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are …
bēthleem“Bethlehem”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Luke 2:15… lalale pros allēloin; Dierchaneia dē heōs Bēthleem kai horaneia tem rēmem houtem tem …… one another, “Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has …
John 7:42… ek teu spermeu David, kai apo Bēthleem tau kōmau hopou ate David, erchotō …… the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
bēthleem“Bethlehem”to, fordative singular3×
Matthew 2:1Tou de Iēsu gennirantou en Bēthleem tau Ioudaiau en hēmerai Hērōdou tou …After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of …
Matthew 2:5tois de legala auto; En Bēthleem tau Ioudaiau; houtōs gar grafotē dia …“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this …
Matthew 2:16… anairata pantoin toin paidoin toin en Bēthleem kai en pantei tei horei autau …… to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two …