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Greek proper noun (a place) · G966

Βηθσαϊδά

Bethsaidabayth-sahee-dah'

2.

7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: Bēthsaïdá

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G966is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 4
    spellings
  • 1
    meaning

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G966

fishing-house; Bethsaida, a place in Palestine

The King James renders it: Bethsaida.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Bethsaida is rendered "2.". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across four books.

  • Two of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
  • Its one listed meaning is "2.".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 11:21“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
  • The Greek text spells it four different ways.

The first use

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 11:21Βηθσαϊδά

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Two of the word's seven uses are in Mark.

The other 23 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word one sense: 2..

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
2.Tagged as
  • Bethsaida7
WhereJohn 5:2Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades…

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 7, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

4 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • Βηθσαϊδά4
  • Βηθσαϊδὰ1
  • Βηθσαϊδάν1
  • Βηθσαϊδὰν1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular3N-ASF-L
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF-L
  • noun · vocative (address) · feminine singular2N-VSF-L

Matthew

one use
  • “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

    Matthew 11:21

    • Βηθσαϊδάbethsaidanoun · vocative (address) · feminine singulartagged: Bethsaida

Mark

two uses
  • Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.

    Mark 6:45

    • Βηθσαϊδὰνbethsaidannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Bethsaida
  • When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

    Mark 8:22

    • Βηθσαϊδάνbethsaidannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Bethsaida

Luke

two uses
  • Then the apostles returned and reported to Jesus all that they had done. Taking them away privately, He withdrew to a town called Bethsaida.

    Luke 9:10

    • Βηθσαϊδάbethsaidanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Bethsaida
  • Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

    Luke 10:13

    • Βηθσαϊδάbethsaidanoun · vocative (address) · feminine singulartagged: Bethsaida

John

two uses
  • Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.

    John 1:44

    • Βηθσαϊδάbethsaidanoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: Bethsaida
  • They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

    John 12:21

    • Βηθσαϊδὰbethsaidanoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: Bethsaida

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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