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Lexicon :: Strong's H1035 - bêṯ leḥem

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בֵּית לֶחֶם
Transliteration
bêṯ leḥem
Pronunciation
bayth leh'-khem
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 241b

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs: בית לחם.

Strong’s Definitions

בֵּית לֶחֶם Bêyth Lechem, bayth leh'-khem; from H1004 and H3899; house of bread; Beth-Lechem, a place in Palestine:—Bethlehem.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x

The KJV translates Strong's H1035 in the following manner: Bethlehem (31x), Bethlehemjudah (with H3063) (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x
The KJV translates Strong's H1035 in the following manner: Bethlehem (31x), Bethlehemjudah (with H3063) (10x).

  1. Beth-lehem = "house of bread (food)"

    1. a city in Judah, birthplace of David

    2. a place in Zebulun

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בֵּית לֶחֶם Bêyth Lechem, bayth leh'-khem; from H1004 and H3899; house of bread; Beth-Lechem, a place in Palestine:—Bethlehem.
STRONGS H1035: Abbreviations
בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם 41 proper name, of a location.
1. in Judah (place of bread. (food), modern Arabic بَيْت لَحْم, place of meat), 2 hours south of Jerusalem; birth-place of David; — בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם Ruth 1:19 + 11 times; ־לָחֶם בּ׳ 1 Samuel 20:6 + 9 times; בֵּית לָ֑חֶם Judges 12:8 + 11 times + Genesis 35:19; Genesis 48:7, where הוא בית לחם is a gloss, see אֶפְרָ֫תָה; ־לָ֑חֶם בּ׳ 1 Samuel 17:15 + 3 times; — as construct לֶ֫חֶם בּ׳ יְהוּדָה Judges 17:7, 8, 9; Judges 19:1, 2, 18 (twice in verse); Ruth 1:1, 2; 1 Samuel 17:12; treated as proper name, masculine 1 Chronicles 2:51, 54; 1 Chronicles 4:4; men of Bethlehem אַנְשֵׁי בּ׳ Nehemiah 7:26 = בְּנֵי בּ׳ Ezra 2:21; — on אֶפְרָ֫תָה as name of Bethlehem, & confusion arising from gloss Genesis 35:19; Genesis 48:7; — modern Beit Laḥm, 5 miles south of Jerusalem RobBR i. 471 BdPal 123 Surveyiii. 28, 83 GuérinJudée i. 120-206.
2. בֵּית לָ֑חֶם in Zebulun Joshua 19:15; perhaps also Judges 12:8, 10; = Beit Laḥm, 7 miles northwest of Nazareth RobBR iii. 113 Surveyi. 301.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

35:19; 35:19; 48:7; 48:7

Joshua

19:15

Judges

12:8; 12:8; 12:10; 17:7; 17:8; 17:9; 19:1; 19:2; 19:18

Ruth

1:1; 1:2; 1:19

1 Samuel

17:12; 17:15; 20:6

1 Chronicles

2:51; 2:54; 4:4

Ezra

2:21

Nehemiah

7:26

H1035

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1035 matches the Hebrew בֵּית לֶחֶם (bêṯ leḥem),
which occurs 82 times in 39 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:19 - So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - And as for me, when I came from Paddan, death overtook Rachel on the way, when we were still some distance from Ephrath; and I put her to rest there on the road to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:15 - And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:8 - And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:10 - And Ibzan came to his death and his body was put to rest at Beth-lehem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 - Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - And he went away from the town of Beth-lehem-judah, looking for somewhere to make his living-place; and on his journey he came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I am a Levite from Beth-lehem-judah, and I am looking for a living-place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 - Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:2 - And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:18 - And he said to him, We are on our way from Beth-lehem-judah to the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim: I came from there and went to Beth-lehem-judah: now I am on my way back to my house, but no man will take me into his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:2 - And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and were there for some time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:19 - So the two of them went on till they came to Beth-lehem. And when they came to Beth-lehem all the town was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:22 - So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her; and they came to Beth-lehem in the first days of the grain-cutting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:4 - And Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said to the grain-cutters, The Lord be with you. And they made answer, The Lord give you his blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:4 - And Samuel did as the Lord said and came to Beth-lehem. And the responsible men of the town came out to him in fear and said, Do you come in peace?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:12 - Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah named Jesse, who had eight sons; and he was an old man in Saul's day, and far on in years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:15 - Now David went to and from Saul, looking after his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:6 - And if your father takes note of the fact that I am away, say, David made a request to me for himself that he might go to Beth-lehem, to his town: for it is the time when his family make their offering year by year.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:28 - And answering Saul, Jonathan said, He made a request to me that he might go to Beth-lehem,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:32 - And they took Asahel's body and put it in the last resting-place of his father in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men, travelling all night, came to Hebron at dawn.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:14 - And at that time David had taken cover in the strong place, and an armed force of the Philistines was in Beth-lehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:15 - And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:16 - And the three men, forcing their way through the Philistine army, got water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town, and took it back to David: but he would not take it, but, draining it out, made an offering of it to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:24 - Asahel, the brother of Joab, was one of the thirty; and Elhanan, the son of Dodai, of Beth-lehem,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:51 - Salma, the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-gader.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:54

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:54 - The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:4 - And Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:16 - At that time David had taken cover in the strong place, and an armed force of the Philistines was in Beth-lehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:17 - And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of the water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem by the doorway into the town!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:18 - So the three, forcing a way through the Philistine army, got water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town, and took it back to David; but David would not take it, but made an offering of it, draining it out to the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:26 - And these were the great men of war: Asahel, the brother of Joab, Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:6 - He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:21 - The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred and twenty-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:26 - The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:17 - And they went and were living in the resting-place of Chimham, which is near Beth-lehem on the way into Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:2 - And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.
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