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Strong's #965 - Βηθλεέμ
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Bethlehem = "house of bread"
- a village about six miles (10 km) south of Jerusalem
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Βηθλημ, ἡ (indecl) (in Josephus not only so (Antiquities 8, 10, 1), but also Βηθλημη, Βηθλημης, Antiquities 6, 8, 1; 11, 7; (7, 1, 3); ἀπό Βηθλεμων, 5, 2, 8; ἐκ Βηθλημων, 5, 9, 1; (cf. 7, 13; 9, 2)), Bethlehem (לֶחֶם בֵּית house of bread), a little town, named from the fertility of its sort, six Roman miles south of Jerusalem; now Beit Lachm, with about 3,000 ("5,000," Baedeker) inhabitants: Matthew 2:1, 5f, 8, 16; Luke 2:4, 15; John 7:42. Cf. Winers RWB, under the word; Robinson i., p. 470ff; Raumer, p. 313ff; Tobler, Bethlehem in Palastina as above with 1849; (Socin (i. e. Baedeker), Handbook. etc., under the word; Porter (i. e. Murray) ibid.; BB. DD.).
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Βηθλεέμ , ἡ ,
indecl.
(Heb. H3899 H1004, house of bread),
Bethlehem, a town 6 miles. S. of Jerusalem: Matthew 2:1; Matthew 2:5-8; Matthew 2:16 Luke 2:4; Luke 2:15 John 7:42.†
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