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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - Βηθανία

Βηθανία

G963

Transliteration: Bēthanía

Pronunciation: bay-than-ee'-ah

Definition: Bethany


- Original: Βηθανία

- Transliteration: Bethania

- Phonetic: bay-than-ee'-ah

- Definition: Bethany = "house of dates" or, "house of misery"

1. a village at the Mount of Olives, about two miles (3 km) from Jerusalem, on or near the normal road to Jericho

2. a town or village on the east bank of the Jordan, where John was baptising

- Origin: of Aramaic origin

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Location

- Strong's: Of Chaldee origin; date house; Bethany a place in Palestine: - Bethany.


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