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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)
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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 Box Gen 35:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:19 - So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “Now as for me, when I came from Paddan [in Mesopotamia], Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:15 - Included were Kattah and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:8 -

And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:10 - Then Ibzan died and was buried at Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 -

Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, from the family [of the tribe] of Judah, who was a [fn]Levite; and he was staying there [temporarily].

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - Then the man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah, to stay wherever he could find a place; and as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to stay wherever I can find a place.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 -

Now it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a certain Levite living [as an alien] in the most remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a [fn]concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:2 - But his concubine was unfaithful to him, and left him and went to her father’s house in Bethlehem of Judah, and stayed there for a period of four months.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:18 - The Levite replied, “We are passing through from Bethlehem [in the territory] of Judah to the most remote part of the hill country of Ephraim; I am from there. I went to Bethlehem of Judah, but I am now going [home] to my house, and there is no man [in the city] who will take me into his house [for the night].

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 -

In the days when the judges governed [Israel], there was a famine in the land [of Canaan]. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live temporarily in the [fn]country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:2 - The man’s name was Elimelech and his wife’s name was Naomi and his two sons were named Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went to the country of Moab and stayed there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:19 -

So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole city was [fn]stirred because of them, and the women asked, “Is this Naomi?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:22 -

So Naomi returned from the country of Moab, and with her Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:4 - It was then that Boaz came back from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, “The LORD be with you!” And they answered him, “The LORD bless you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - All the people at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the household of Israel. May you achieve wealth and power in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:4 - So Samuel did what the LORD said, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city came trembling to meet him and said, “Do you come in peace?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:12 -

Now David was the son of the [fn]Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:15 - but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s flock at Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:6 - “If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked permission from me to go to Bethlehem, his city, because it is the yearly sacrifice there for the entire family.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:28 - Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked me for permission to go to Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:32 - And they picked up [the body of] Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father in Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men walked all night and they arrived in Hebron at daybreak.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:14 - David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:15 - And David had a craving and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:16 - So the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water from the well of Bethlehem by the gate, and carried and brought it to David. But he would not drink it, but poured it out [in worship] to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:24 -

Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; then Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 2:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:51 - Salma the father of Bethlehem and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 2:54

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:54 - The sons (descendants) of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:4 - Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the eldest of Ephrathah (Ephrath), the father of Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:16 - David was then in the stronghold, while the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:17 - David had a craving and said, “Oh that someone would give me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem, which is next to the gate!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:18 - Then the three [mighty men] broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem which was next to the gate, and brought it to David. But David would not drink it; he poured it out to the LORD [as an offering];

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:26 -

Now the mighty men of the armies were: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:6 - He [fn]built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:21 - the men of Bethlehem, 123;

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:26 - the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:17 - And they went and stayed in Geruth [the lodging place of] Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:2 -

“But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,

Too little to be among the clans of Judah;

From you One shall come forth for Me [who is] to be Ruler in Israel,

His goings forth (appearances) are from long ago,

From [fn]ancient days.”

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