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noun · feminine

GreekΒηθσαϊδάν (bēthsaidan)
Biblang

bēthsaidan

Strong’sG966

Bethsaida

stem bēthsaidan-2 times 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.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Βηθσαιδά (Rec. -σαϊδά), and -δάν (Mt, Mk, ll. with), ἡ, indecl. (Syr., house of fish),
Bethsaida, a town on NE. shore of the Sea of Galilee: Luk.9:10. It is generally supposed that a second B. on the W. shore is referred to in Mat.11:21, Mrk.6:45 8:22, Luk.10:13, Jhn.1:45 12:21 (DB, i, 282f.; but see Swete on Mrk.6:45).
__2. 2. Βηθζαθά, ἡ, indecl. (perh. Aram. בֵּית זַיְתָה, house of olives) Jhn.5:2..†
(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.

Bethsaida2×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativebēthsaidanbēthsaidan
object accusativebēthsaidan2×Βηθσαϊδάνbēthsaidan
direct address vocativebēthsaidanbēthsaidan
of, belonging to genitivebēthsaidanbēthsaidan
to, for dativebēthsaidanbēthsaidan

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

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

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

bēthsaidan“Bethsaida”objectaccusative singular2×

Mark 6:45… kai proagarō eis tem peran pros Bēthsaidan, heōs autos apoluatō ton ochlon.… go on ahead of Him to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.

Mark 8:22Kai ercholō eis Bēthsaidan. kai feralō auto tuflon kai parakalalō …When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man …