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BETHLEHEM - B>@ - (house of bread). One of the oldest towns in Palestine, already in existence at the time of Jacob’s return to the country. Its earliest name was EPHRATAH, OR EPHRATH or EPHRATAH.
See kjv@Genesis:35:16 kjv@Genesis:35:19 kjv@Genesis:48:7) After the conquest Bethlehem appears under its own name, BETHLEHEM

- JUDAH. kjv@Judges:17:7; kjv@1Samuel:17:12; kjv@Ruth:1:1-2) The book of Ruth is a page from the domestic history of Bethlehem. It was the home of Ruth, kjv@Ruth:1:19) and of David. ( kjv@1Samuel:17:12) It was fortified by Rehoboam. ( kjv@2Chronicles:11:6) It was here that our Lord was born, kjv@Matthew:2:1) and here that he was visited by the shepherds, kjv@Luke:2:15-17) and the Magi. kjv@Matthew:2. The modern town of Beit-lahm lies to the east of the main road from Jerusalem to Hebron, six miles from the former. It covers the east and northeast parts of the ridge of a long gray hill of Jura limestone, which stands nearly due east and west, and is about a mile in length. The hill has a deep valley on the north and another on the south. On the top lies the village in a kind of irregular triangle. The population is about 3000 souls, entirely Christians. The Church of the Nativity, built by the empress Helena A.D. 330, is the oldest Christian church in existence. It is built over the grotto where Christ is supposed to have been born. A town in the portion of Zebulun, named nowhere but in kjv@Joshua:19:15) Now known as Beit-lahm .

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Bethlehem @ house of bread.

(1.) A city in the "hill country" of Judah. It was originally called Ephrath kjv@Genesis:35:16 kjv@Genesis:35:19 kjv@Genesis:48:7; kjv@Ruth:4:11). It was also called Beth-lehem Ephratah kjv@Micah:5:2), Beth-lehem-judah ( kjv@1Samuel:17:12), and "the city of David" kjv@Luke:2:4). It is first noticed in Scripture as the place where Rachel died and was buried "by the wayside," directly to the north of the city kjv@Genesis:48:7). The valley to the east was the scene of the story of Ruth the Moabitess. There are the fields in which she gleaned, and the path by which she and Naomi returned to the town. Here was David's birth-place, and here also, in after years, he was anointed as king by Samuel ( kjv@1Samuel:16:4-13); and it was from the well of Bethlehem that three of his heroes brought water for him at the risk of their lives when he was in the cave of Adullam ( kjv@2Samuel:23:13-17). But it was distinguished above every other city as the birth-place of "Him whose goings forth have been of old" kjv@Matthew:2:6; comp. kjv@Micah:5:2). Afterwards Herod, "when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men," sent and slew "all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under" kjv@Matthew:2:16-18; kjv@Jeremiah:31:15). Bethlehem bears the modern name of Beit
- Lahm, i.e., "house of flesh." It is about 5 miles south of Jerusalem, standing at an elevation of about 2,550 feet above the sea, thus 100 feet higher than Jerusalem. There is a church still existing, built by Constantine the Great (A.D. 330), called the "Church of the Nativity," over a grotto or cave called the "holy crypt," and said to be the "stable" in which Jesus was born. This is perhaps the oldest existing Christian church in the world. Close to it is another grotto, where Jerome the Latin father is said to have spent thirty years of his life in translating the Scriptures into Latin. (
See VERSION.)

(2.) A city of Zebulun, mentioned only in kjv@Joshua:19:15. Now Beit
- Lahm, a ruined village about 6 miles west-north-west of Nazareth.

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BETHLEHEM @

-1. A city southwest of Jerusalem kjv@Judges:17:7; kjv@Judges:19:18 .Called EPHRATAH and EPHRATH kjv@Genesis:48:7; kjv@Psalms:132:6; kjv@Micah:5:2 .And BETH

- LEHEM

- JUDAH kjv@Judges:17:7-9; kjv@Judges:19:1 kjv@Judges:19:18 kjv@Ruth:1:1; kjv@1Samuel:17:12 .Rachel dies and is buried at kjv@Genesis:35:16 kjv@Genesis:35:19 kjv@Genesis:48:7 .The city of Boaz kjv@Ruth:1:1 kjv@Ruth:1:19 kjv@Ruth:2:4; 4 .Taken and held by the Philistines kjv@2Samuel:23:14-16 .Jeroboam converts it into a military stronghold kjv@2Chronicles:11:6 .The city of Joseph kjv@Matthew:2:5-6; kjv@Luke:2:4 .Birthplace of Jesus kjv@Micah:5:2; kjv@Matthew:2; Luke:2:4 kjv@Luke:2:15 .Herod murders the infants of kjv@Matthew:2:16-18

-2. A town of Zebulun, six miles west of Nazareth kjv@Joshua:19:15 .Israel judged at kjv@Judges:12:10

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H1022 <STRHEB>@ בּית הלּחמי bêyth hallachmîy bayth hal-lakh-mee' Patrial from H1035 with the article inserted; a Beth {lechemite} or native of Bethlechem: - Bethlehemite.

H3433 <STRHEB>@ ישׁבי לחם ישׁבי לחם yâshûbîy lechem yôshebêy lechem {yaw-shoo'-bee} yo-sheh-bay' (leh'-khem) Shown as the first form; from H7725 and H3899; returner of bread; {Jashubi-Lechem} an Israelite; but probably the text should be pointed (as in the second form) and rendered (they were) inhabitants of {Lechem} that {is} of Bethlehem (by contraction): - Jashubi-lehem. [Probably the text should be pointed Yoshebey {Lechem} yo-sheh-bay {leh-khem} and rendered (they were) inhabitants of {Lechem} That is6of Bethlehem (by contraction). Compare H3902.]

H672 <STRHEB>@ אפרתה אפרת 'ephrâth 'ephrâthâh {ef-rawth'} ef-raw'-thaw From H6509; fruitfulness; {Ephrath} another name for Bethlehem; once used in perhaps for Ephraim; also of an Israelitish woman: - {Ephrath} Ephratah.

G965 <STRGRK>@ Βηθλεέμ Bēthleem bayth-leh-em' Of Hebrew origin [H1036]; Bethleem (that is Beth-lechem) a place in Palestine: - Bethlehem.