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bethlehem
/ˈbɛθlɪˌhɛm/
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What does bethlehem mean?
noun
- In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the Eucharist is made.
proper noun
- A city in the West Bank, Palestine, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus.
- A hamlet near Rottum, Groningen province, Netherlands.
More meanings (24)
proper noun
- A settlement just west of Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
- A town in the Free State province, South Africa.
- A quarter of Bümpliz-Oberbottigen, city of Bern, Switzerland.
- A small village in Llangadog community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN6825).
- A hamlet in Rudbaxton community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9820).
- A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
- An unincorporated community in Holmes County, Florida.
- A town in Barrow County, Georgia.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Clark County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Henry County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Winn Parish, Louisiana.
- An unincorporated community in Caroline County, Maryland.
- A census-designated place in Marshall County, Mississippi.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
- A town in Albany County, New York.
- A census-designated place in Alexander County, North Carolina.
- A ghost town in Marion County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Richland County, Ohio.
- A city in Northampton County and Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Tennessee.
- An unincorporated community in Harrison County, West Virginia.
- A village in Ohio County, West Virginia.
- A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Bethlehem Township
noun
- (obsolete) A lunatic asylum.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɛθlɪˌhɛm/
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So, I say, when you see and hear them, those romping girls of Bethlehem will gladden your very soul.
‘That this may be so,’ he wrote, ‘I long with the longing of David for the water of Bethlehem.
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I was escorted as far as Bethlehem, where I rested a few days to recover from the fatigue I had undergone.
And there beside is the gate where through our Lady went, when she was with child, when she went to Bethlehem.
Around Bethlehem, Indiana, the farmers raise hundreds of tons of sunflower seed every year, and the industry pays better than anything else in the farming line.