noun · feminine

bēthsaidan

GreekΒηθσαϊδάν (bēthsaidan)

Strong’sG966

Bethsaida

stem bēthsaidan-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Bethsaida2×

What it means

Βηθσαιδά (Rec. -σαϊδά), and -δάν (Mt 11:21, Mk 6:45 8:22), ἡ, indecl.

(Syr., house of fish),

Bethsaida, a town on NE. shore of the Sea of Galilee: Lk 9:10. It is generally supposed that a second Β. on the W. shore is referred to in Mt 11:21, Mk 6:45 8:22, Lk 10:13, Jo 1:45 12:21 (DB, i, 282 f.; but v. Swete on Mk 6:45).

2. v.l. for Βηθζαθά, Βηθεσδά, Jo 5:2.†

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

Strong’s G966 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbayth-sahee-dah'

fishing-house; Bethsaida, a place in Palestine

Fromof Chaldee origin (compare and );

King JamesBethsaida.

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	bēthsaidan	bēthsaidan
object accusative	bēthsaidan2×Βηθσαϊδάν	bēthsaidan
direct address vocative	bēthsaidan	bēthsaidan
of, belonging to genitive	bēthsaidan	bēthsaidan
to, for dative	bēthsaidan	bēthsaidan

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

bēthsaidanstem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

bēthsaidan“Bethsaida”objectaccusative singular2×

Mark 6:45“Bethsaida”Kai euthuos anankazata toin mathētoin autou embainara eis tem ploiem kai proagarō eis tem peran pros Bēthsaidan, heōs autos apoluatō ton ochlon.Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.

Mark 8:22“Bethsaida”Kai erchelō eis Bēthsaidan. kai feralō auto tuflon kai parakalalō auton hina autou hapteteia.When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.