STRONGS G965:
Βηθλεέμ,
ἡ, [indeclinable] (in Josephus not only so [Antiquities 8, 10, 1], but also
Βηθλεέμη,
-ης, Antiquities 6, 8, 1; 11, 7; [7, 1, 3];
ἀπὸ Βηθλέμων, 5, 2, 8;
ἐκ Βηθλεέμων, 5, 9, 1; [cf. 7, 13; 9, 2]),
Bethlehem, (
לֶחֶם בֵּית house of bread), a little town, named from the fertility of its soil, 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 Palästina as above with 1849; [
Socin (i. e. Baedeker), Handbook. etc., under the word;
Porter (i. e. Murray) ibid.;
BB. DD.].
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