בית לחם

Aramaic

Alternative forms

• ביתלחם

Etymology

FromHebrewבֵּית לֶחֶם(bēṯ lɛ́ḥɛm,literally“house of bread”)

Proper noun

בית לחם•(beit lekhem)

1. Bethlehem(a city in theWest Bank)

Evidence for the Aramaic spelling בית לחם can be inferred based on the fact that the spellingܒܝܬܠܚܡcan be found in the Syriac Aramaic version of the bible in Matthew 2as well as other parts of the book. The letters ܒܝܬܠܚܡ transliterate to ביתלחם.

Descendants

• →Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:ܒܝܬܠܚܡ(bitlḥm)
• →Classical Syriac:ܒܝܬ ܠܚܡ

Hebrew

Roots
ב־י־ת(b-y-t)
ל־ח־ם(l-kh-m)

Etymology

Fromבֵּית(bet,“house of”)+‎לֶחֶם(lékhem,“bread”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

בֵּית לֶחֶם•(bet lékhem)f(Biblical Hebrewpausal formבֵּית לָחֶם)

1. Bethlehem(a city in theWest Bank,Palestine,believed to be thebirthplaceofJesus)

Descendants

• →Arabic:بَيْت لَحْم(bayt laḥm)(see there for further descendants)
• →Aramaic:בית לחם(see there for further descendants)
• →Ancient Greek:Βηθλεέμ(Bēthleém)(see there for further descendants)

References

• H1035inStrong, James(1979)Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Further reading

• בית לחםon the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia^he